اِقْتَرَفَhave acquired

Example sentences

• وَعَشِيرَتُكُمْ وَأَمْوَالُ إِقْتَرَفْتُمُوهَا وَتِجَارَةٌ تَخْشَوْنَ كَسَادُهَا

  and your kin, and wealth you have acquired it, and trade whose stagnation you fear

  اقترفتموها — you have acquired it. This single word packs a past verb, a built-in 'you (plural)' subject, and a tail -ha, 'it', as object pointing back to the wealth. Arabic folds subject and object pronouns onto the verb, so one word says 'you-all acquired it', describing the wealth just named.

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