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أَخَذْتُ I seized in Arabic

أَخَذْتُ is how you say “I seized” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَرَصَدْتُهُ فَجَاءَ يَحْثُو مِّنَ الطَّعَامِ فَأَخَذْتُهُ

So I watched him. He came, scooping up from the food, so I seized him.

فَأَخَذْتُهُ so I seized him

A past-tense verb with the 'I' subject in its '-tu' ending and an attached 'him' pronoun as object. The opening 'fa-' marks the speaker's response to the theft. One word carries the seizing, its doer, and the man seized.

From The Verse of the Throne

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More example sentences

قَالَ فَأَخَذْتُ الْقَدَحَ

He said, so I took the cup.

فَأَخَذْتُ so I took

Begins with the connector 'so/then'; a past verb 'took' with 'I' built in, so 'so I took'. The connector marks the taking as the next step after the command. The 'I' is inside the verb.

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