قَعْتُI fall in Arabic

Example sentences

• ثُمَّ أَرْجِعُ فَإِذَا رَأَيْتُ رَبِّي وَقَعْتُ سَاجِدًا،

  Then I return, and when I see my Lord I fall prostrate.

  وَقَعْتُ — and I fall. The leading wa- is a narrative 'and' joining this clause to the seeing before it. The verb ends in -tu, locking the doer as 'I', so subject and the finished action of falling sit together in one word.

  From: Intercession on Judgment Day →

• وَإِذَا رَأَيْتُ كِتَابًا لَمْ أَرَهُ فَكَأَنِّي وَقَعْتُ عَلَى كَنْزٍ،

  When I saw a book I had not seen before, it was as if I had stumbled upon a treasure.

  وَقَعْتُ — I stumbled upon. A past-tense verb with the -tu 'I' ending, used here in a figurative sense of stumbling onto something. Sitting inside the simile launched by 'as if', it describes the imagined comparison rather than a literal event. The -tu again pins the speaker as the one acting.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →