أَعْطَيْتُهاI gave her

Example sentences

• فأردتها على نفسها فامتنعت منى حتى ألمّت بها سنة من السنين فجاءتنى فأعطيتها عشرين ومائة دينار على أن تخلى بينى وبين نفسها ففعلت، حتى إذا قدرت عليها

  I returned her to her own custody, but she withheld herself from me until a year of the years befell her. Then she came to me and I gave her one hundred and twenty dinars on the condition that she relinquish between me and her self; she did so, until when I gained power over her.

  فأعطيتها — so I gave her. This stacks the connector fa- onto a past-tense verb plus the object -ha ('her'): 'so I gave her'. The fa- advances the story to his offer, with subject, verb and recipient packed into one word, and a second object follows.

  From: Three Men Saved by Sincerity →