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سَعَى moved in Arabic

سَعَى is how you say “moved” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وارتعت إذا سعت فشبعت خيل وحمر،

And they grazed when they moved, so the horses and donkeys were satisfied,

سَعَتْ they moved

Past-tense verb with a built-in feminine-plural subject, sitting inside the 'when' clause opened just before it. It supplies the condition's own action, and its feminine ending keeps it agreeing with the same non-human plural group acting throughout the line.

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More example sentences

سَعَى فِي الْقَبْضِ عَلَى ابْنِ يُونُسِ،

He sought to arrest Ibn Yunus.

سَعَى he sought

A past verb 'sought / strove', carrying its own 'he' subject inferred from the minister just mentioned. It sets up a 'strove for …' frame completed by the prepositional phrase that follows.

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