قَتَل killed in Arabic
قَتَل is how you say “killed” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فيقول إن ربي قد غضب اليوم غضباً لم يغضب قبله مثله، ولن يغضب بعده مثله، وإني قد قتلت نفساً لم أومر بقتلها، نفسي نفسي نفسي، اذهبوا إلى غيري،
He will say: "My Lord has become angry today with an anger like none before or after. Indeed, I killed a person whom I was not commanded to kill. Myself, myself, myself! Go to someone else."
قَتَلْتُ I killed
A past verb with the '-tu' ending naming 'I' as the doer, the speaker's admission of having killed; the doer is marked by the ending, not a separate pronoun. It is the heart of his confession.
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More example sentences
فيقول إن ربي قد غضب اليوم غضباً لم يغضب قبله مثله، ولن يغضب بعده مثله، وإني قد قتلت نفساً لم أومر بقتلها، نفسي نفسي نفسي، اذهبوا إلى غيري،
He will say: "My Lord has become angry today with an anger like none before or after. Indeed, I killed a person whom I was not commanded to kill. Myself, myself, myself! Go to someone else."
بِقَتْلِهَا to kill
The prefix 'bi-' marks what he was (not) commanded about, the noun names the killing, and '-ha' ties it back to that slain person; the noun sits in the form the preposition governs. One word holds means, deed and referent.