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قَعْتُ I fall in Arabic

قَعْتُ is how you say “I fall” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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

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More example sentences

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

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