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جَلَسْتُ I sat in Arabic

جَلَسْتُ is how you say “I sat” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

حَتَّى دَخَلَ بِئْرَ أَرِيسِ، فَجَلَسْتُ عِنْدَ الْبَابِ،

Until he entered the well of Aris, and I sat by the door.

فَجَلَسْتُ and I sat

The fa- on the front is a tight 'and so' link, ordering this action immediately after the one before with a sense of consequence. The verb itself is a past 'sat' whose ending already carries the first-person 'I', so the doer is folded into the word rather than written as a separate pronoun.

From Three Companions Promised Paradise

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More example sentences

فَجَلَسْتُ عِنْدَ الْبَابِ، فَقُلْتُ لَأَكُونَنَّ بَوَّابَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ الْيَوْمَ،

So I sat by the door and said, "Let me be the doorkeeper of the Messenger of God today, may God bless him and grant him peace."

فَجَلَسْتُ so I sat

The fa- on the front is a tight 'and so' link, ordering this action immediately after the one before with a sense of consequence. The verb itself is a past 'sat' whose ending already carries the first-person 'I', so the doer is folded into the word rather than written as a separate pronoun.

From Three Companions Promised Paradise

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