أعطىgive

Example sentences

• فقال أعطني دواء للحمار

  and said, 'Give me medicine for the donkey.'

  أعطني — give me. A command-verb, 'give', with the object 'me' attached on the end. The bare command shape is addressed to 'you', and the suffix marks the speaker as the one to receive; one word carries verb and 'me'.

  From: Reflections on Literal Obedience →

• وقال له ألم أقل لك أعطني دواء للحمار؟

  and said to him, 'Didn't I tell you to give me medicine for the donkey?'

  أعطني — give me. A command-verb, 'give', with the object 'me' attached, quoted back from Joha's earlier request. The bare command is to 'you', and the suffix is the speaker.

  From: Reflections on Literal Obedience →

• فقال الرجل أنا أذهب إليه وأخبره أني اشتريت قصرًا في الجنة بعشرين ألفًا، فلعلّه يعطيني مثلها

  So the man said: I will go to him and tell him that I have bought a palace in Paradise for twenty thousand, perhaps he will give me the same.

  يُعْطِينِي — he will give me. A present-tense verb with 'he' built in and the attached -ni 'me' as its object; the special -ni form keeps 'me' distinct from the subject. Its weak-final root softens the ending.

  From: The Reward of Giving →

• وقال الثالث اللهم استأجرت أجراء وأعطيتهم أجرهم غير رجل واحد ترك الذى له وذهب، فثمرت أجره حتى كثرت منه الأموال،

  The third said: 'O Allah, I hired laborers and paid them their wages except for one man who left without taking his pay. I invested his wages until they multiplied into wealth.'

  وَأَعْطَيْتُهُمْ — and paid them. This stacks the connector wa- onto a past-tense verb plus the object -hum ('them'): 'and I paid them'. The wa- chains this onto the hiring as the next deed, with subject, verb and recipient packed into one word.

  From: Three Men Saved by Sincerity →