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تَدَبَّرْتُ I reflected in Arabic

تَدَبَّرْتُ is how you say “I reflected” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَتَدَبَّرْتُ السَّبَبَ فِي ذَلِكَ، فَعَرَفْتُهُ

I reflected on the reason for that, and then I understood it.

فَتَدَبَّرْتُ so I reflected

This fuses the sequencing 'so/then' onto a past-tense verb that already holds its 'I' subject in its tail. The prefix marks this as the next step in a chain of actions: 'so then I reflected'.

From Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness

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More example sentences

وَإِنِّي تَدَبَّرْتُ أَحْوَالَ أَكْثَرِ الْعُلَمَاءِ وَالْمُتَزَهِّدِينَ،

And indeed I reflected on the conditions of most of the scholars and the ascetics.

تَدَبَّرْتُ I reflected

A past-tense verb carrying its subject inside it: the -tu tail is the 'I' doer, so no separate pronoun is needed. The doubled middle consonant marks this as the intensive pattern, the 'really chew it over' shade of reflecting, narrating a completed act of deep reflection the speaker performed.

From Vigilance Against Worldly Deception

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