قُدِّمَpresented in Arabic

Example sentences

• وإذا جلس كأنه أسير قدم لتضرب عنقه،

  And when he sat, it was as if he were a prisoner brought forth to be executed.

  قُدِّمَ — was presented. This is the passive form: the prisoner was brought forward, with the agent unnamed. Arabic marks the passive by reshaping the verb's inner vowels, and following the indefinite noun it works as a describing clause, 'a prisoner who was brought', with no separate 'who'.

  From: Grief of the Prophet's Grandson →