لَفَعَلْتُI would have done

Example sentences

• لَفَعَلْتُ، وَلَكِنِّي أَرْغَبُ بِكُمَا عَنْ ذَلِكَ وَأَزْوِيهِ عَنْكُمَا،

  I would have done it, but I prefer to spare you both that, and I will keep it away from you both.

  لفعلت، — I would have done it. This verb opens with an emphatic l- prefix that stamps the statement as a firm 'I certainly would have', and the verb itself is past first-person, its -tu ending carrying 'I'. The l- is the real grammar here, marking the emphatic answer to the earlier 'if'. So the word holds emphasis, tense, and the 'I' subject.

  From: Under God's Shield →