قَصَّصَrecount

Example sentences

• فَقَصَّصْتُهَا عَلَيْهِ،

  So I recounted it to him.

  قَصَّصْتُهَا — I recounted it. A past-tense verb carrying two attached pieces at once: the -tu ending packs in the subject 'I', and a further suffix tacks on the object 'it', so a single Arabic word does the work of an English subject, verb, and object together. The doubled middle consonant marks the intensive shape of this verb, the pattern used for telling a story out in full detail.

  From: A Night of Reckoning →