عَفَا may pardon in Arabic
عَفَا is how you say “may pardon” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
إِنْ تَكُنْ خُنْتَنَا فَعَنْكَ عَفَا اللَّهُ وَإِنْ كُنْتُ خُنْتُكُمْ فَاعْفُ عَنِّي
If you betrayed us, may God forgive you; and if I betrayed you, forgive me.
عَفَا may pardon
A past-tense verb with its 'he' subject built in, read here as a prayer 'may He forgive', a common use of the past form for invoking a wish. It delivers the consequence of the first 'if'. Person and tense ride inside.
The English is machine-translated.

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