هَدَأَتْhad settled

Example sentences

• فَلَمْ يُفَاجِئْ الْقَوْمَ لَيْلَةً بَعْدَمَا هَدَأَتْ الْعُيُونُ

  So the people were not surprised that night, after the springs had settled.

  هَدَأَتْ — had settled. Past-tense verb in its feminine shape, agreeing as singular-feminine with a non-human plural subject, Arabic's normal treatment of such groups. The doer rides in the verb's form, set ahead of its subject.

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