سَعَىmoved in Arabic

Example sentences

• 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.

  From: Rain and God's Decree →

• 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.

  From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →