Arabic vocabulary

أَخَذْتُI seized in Arabic

أَخَذْتُ is how you say “I seized” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.

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.
From: Generosity to the Poor →

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