ارْتَعَgrazed

Example sentences

• وارتعت إذا سعت فشبعت خيل وحمر،

  And they grazed when they moved, so the horses and donkeys were satisfied,

  وَارْتَعَتْ — and they grazed. A past-tense verb holding its own feminine-plural 'they' subject; Arabic builds the subject into the verb form. The feminine ending points to the non-human plural doers, and the verb reads as a completed action rather than an ongoing one because of its past shape.

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