مُنِعَprevented

Example sentences

• فلما حل الهدم بودي سارة منع الولدان يجوز،

  When the ruin befell Sarah’s town, children were no longer allowed to pass.

  مُنِعَ — was prevented. This is the passive form of the verb: the children are the ones forbidden, and the forbidder is left unnamed. Arabic adds no helper word like 'were'; it marks the passive by reshaping the inner vowels of the verb, so the act lands on its receiver, who is named next as the delayed subject.

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