Arabic vocabulary
قَدَرْتُI was able
How to say “I was able” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَفَعَلَتْ حَتَّى إِذَا قَدَرْتُ عَلَيْهَا
So she did until when I was able upon her.
قَدَرْتُ — I was able. A past-tense verb carrying its own 'I' subject in the '-tu' ending, so no separate pronoun appears. It governs the following 'upon her' phrase: the ability is exercised over something, which is why a preposition rather than a plain object completes the thought.
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