دَعَوْتُinvoked

Example sentences

• دَعَوْتُ زَوْجَتَيَّ لِفَتْحِ الْبَابِ،

  I called my two wives to open the door.

  دَعَوْتُ — I called. A past-tense verb with the -tu ending fixing 'I' as the subject, 'I called'. It opens this sentence with the narrator summoning others, and it governs the following noun as the people called and a purpose-phrase saying what for. No connector here, a fresh start in the narration.

  From: A Night of Reckoning →

• فَأَتَيْتُهُمْ فَدَعَوْتُهُمْ فَأَقْبَلُوا، فَاسْتَأْذَنُوا فَأَذِنَ لَهُمْ،

  So I came to them and called to them; they came forward, asked permission, and he granted it to them.

  فَدَعَوْتُهُمْ — so I called to them. Begins with the sequencing 'so/then'; a past verb 'called' with 'I' built in and 'them' attached, so 'so I called them'. The connector links it to the coming just before. The 'them' are the People of the Suffah.

  From: Generosity to the Poor →

• فيقول إن ربي غضب اليوم غضباً لم يغضب قبله مثله، ولن يغضب بعده مثله، وإنه قد كانت لي دعوة دعوت بها على قومي،

  He says, "My Lord was angry today with an anger like none before it, and none like it will be after it, and indeed there was for me a supplication which I invoked against my people,"

  دَعَوْتُ — I invoked. A past-tense verb with an 'I' ending built into its shape, opening a clause that describes the supplication just named. The first-person subject is carried inside the verb, so it reads 'I made (it)', telling what was done with that prayer.

  From: The Prophet's Intercession →