قَدِيمًاlong ago

Example sentences

• وَقَدِيمًا خِرِتُ لَهُمْ فَإِنِّي لَأَذُودُهُمْ عَنْ نَعِيمِهَا وَرَخَائِهَا

  And long ago I took pains for them, so indeed I do ward them off from its pleasures and its comforts.

  وَقَدِيمًا — and long ago. The wa- on the front is the 'and' connector, joining this to the previous speech, and it is attached to an adverb meaning 'long ago'. The wa- links the new statement in, while the adverb sets it in the distant past. Together they open the clause with a time-stamp tied to what came before.

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