Arabic vocabulary
أَخَذْتُI seized
How to say “I seized” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
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 →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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