تَرَقَّواgrow tender

Example sentences

• فَلَمَّا تَرَقَّوا فَعَاقُوا وَالْعُقُوقُ مِنَ الْذُّنُوبِ الْكِبَارِ،

  When they grew tender, they were ungrateful, and ingratitude is among the major sins,

  تَرَقَّوا — they grew tender. A past-tense verb whose ending -u marks a third-person 'they' as the doers — the children, now grown. Arabic carries the plural subject inside this final vowel rather than in a separate word. It is the action governed by the 'when' clause: when they grew up.

  From: This World Is Short →