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وَجَدْتُ I found in Arabic

وَجَدْتُ is how you say “I found” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَوَجَدْتُ عَلَيْهِ وَجَدًّا شَدِيدًا،

I felt an intense yearning for him,

فَوَجَدْتُ so I found

A connector fa- ('so') fused to the past verb 'I found/felt', with the first-person 'I' in its -tu ending. The fa- ties this reaction to the death just reported as its consequence. Connector, verb, and subject all sit in one written word.

From Mothers and the Companions

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قَالَ فَذَهَبْتُ بِهِ فَوَجَدْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ وَمَعَهُ النَّاسُ،

He said: So I took it to him and found the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, in the mosque with the people.

فَوَجَدْتُ so I found

The fa- chains his next act -- 'so I found' -- onto his going, '-tu' again marking 'I'. It shows finding the Prophet as the immediate next beat of his errand.

From The Barley Loaf That Fed Eighty

فَوَجَدْتُهُ عَلَى بَابِ الْمَسْجِدِ،

So I found him at the door of the mosque.

فَوَجَدْتُهُ so I found him

The prefix fa- marks the next event ('so'), the -tu marks the doer 'I', and an attached -hu ('him') is the object, all on one verb. So 'so I found him' packs sequence, subject, and object into a single word.

From Marriage and Financial Justice

إِنِّي وَجَدْتُ فِيمَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَى أَنْبِيَائِهِ

Indeed, I found in what Allah sent down to His prophets.

وَجَدْتُ I found

This is a past-tense verb with the subject ending '-I' built into it, so no separate pronoun is needed. It reports the speaker's act of finding, with what was found delivered by the following clause. The first-person ending is fused into the verb's shape.

From On Reason and Temptation

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