أَصْطَلِيI began to warm myself

Example sentences

• فَجَعَلْتُ أَصْطَلِي مَعَهُمْ عَلَى نِيرَانِهِم

  So I began to warm myself with them on their fires.

  أَصْطَلِي — I began to warm myself. This is a present-tense verb with 'I' built into its prefix, paired with the 'began' verb before it to mean 'I started to warm myself'. The present shape after 'began' is how Arabic shows an action getting going. The reflexive sense is that the warming is done to oneself.

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