أَسْمَعْتُمْhave you heard

Example sentences

• أَسْمَعْتُمْ عُيُوبَ الْعَاجِلَةِ أَيَشْتَرِي زَنَابِيرَ التَّمْرِ مُشْتَارٌ،

  Have you heard the faults of the transient world? Who would buy dates riddled with wasps?

  أَسْمَعْتُمْ — have you heard. A past-tense verb 'heard' whose ending -tum addresses a plural 'you' — it both sets the past and names the listeners as the doers. Arabic folds the plural addressee into the verb's tail rather than using a separate pronoun. It opens a direct, challenging question to the audience.

  From: This World Is Short →