Arabic vocabulary
قَعَدْتُI sat down
How to say “I sat down” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَقَعَدْتُ فَشَرِبْتُ
Then I sat down and drank.
فَقَعَدْتُ — then I sat down. The 'fa-' connector advances the narration, 'then I sat down'; the body is the past 'sat' with 'I' built in. It marks the sitting as the next step after the order. The 'I' is inside the verb.
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