أَخَذْتُهُI seized him

Example sentences

• فَأَتَانِيٓ آتٍ فَجَعَلَ يَحْثُو مِنَ الطَّعَامِ، فَأَخَذْتُهُ،

  Then a man came to me and began scooping up 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 →

• فَأَخَذْتُهُ فَقُلْتُ لَأَرْفَعَنَّكَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ،

  So I took him and said, "I will certainly raise you to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace."

  فَأَخَذْتُهُ — so I took 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 third theft. One word carries the seizing, its doer, and the man seized.

  From: The Verse of the Throne →