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إِنْصَرَفَ I turned away in Arabic

إِنْصَرَفَ is how you say “I turned away” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَإِنْصَرَفْتُ عَنْهَا وَهِيَ أَحَبُّ النَّاسِ إِلَيَّ

So I turned away from her, although she was the person dearest to me.

فَإِنْصَرَفْتُ so I turned away

A past-tense verb with the 'I' subject in its '-tu' ending, led off by 'fa-' marking the next step in the chain of events. The verb's reflexive build shows the turning-away is something the speaker does to himself, a deliberate withdrawal, not an action aimed outward.

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More example sentences

فَإِنْصَرَفَ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ

He then returned to his family.

فَإِنْصَرَفَ then returned

A 'fa-' fused to a past 'he' verb on a self-doing pattern, 'then he turned away / returned'. The 'fa-' marks the next step in the story, 'then', and the verb's 'he' subject is built in, the man from before. It governs the direction phrase after it as where he went back to.

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