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قُلتُ I said in Arabic

قُلتُ is how you say “I said” in Arabic.

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قُلتُ بَلَى،

I said, 'Yes.'

قُلتُ I said

Past-tense speech-verb with the suffix '-tu' (I) fused on, so the narrator is the doer. This 'I said' frames the one-word reply. The '-tu' ending marks the first-person singular subject inside the verb.

From A Night with the Prophet

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وَلَوْ قُلتُ إِنِّي اِطَّلَعْتُ عِشْرِينَ أَلْفَ مُجَلَّدًا، كَانَ أَكْثَرُ،

And if I said: 'Indeed I have perused twenty thousand volumes,' it would be more.

قُلتُ I said

A past-tense verb with the -tu 'I' ending. Although past in form, inside the 'if' supposition it carries hypothetical force, 'were I to say'. Conditional particles like the one before it routinely take a past-shaped verb for an unreal situation.

From A Life of Reading and Writing

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