عَادَ return in Arabic

لا يعودون إلى يوم القيامة

They will not return until the Day of Judgment.

يَعُودُونَ they will return

Present-tense verb 'return', 'they' form (the '-una' = they); negated — 'they will not return'.

From Angels at al-Aqsa

وَلَا أَنْ يَعُودَ وَهُوَ الْمَتْبُوعُ تَابِعًا

And not that he returns as a follower while he is the leader.

يَعُودَ he returns

Present-tense verb, subject 'he' built in; the '-a' ending follows 'an'.

From Intellect and Faith

كان ابن عباس إذا جلس مع أصحابه حدثهم ساعة ثم قال حمضونا، فيأخذ في أحاديث العرب ثم يعود يفعل ذلك مرارًا

When Ibn Abbas sat with his companions, he would talk to them for an hour and then say, 'Refresh us,' and would start discussing Arab stories before returning, doing this repeatedly.

يَعُودُ he returns

A present-tense verb 'he returns / goes back', habitual within the past frame, 'he would go back to it'.

From Stories That Soften the Heart

فعادت عليه بركة النبوة،

The blessings of prophethood returned upon him,

عَادَتْ it returned

This past-tense verb carries a feminine 'she/it' subject by its ending and awaits its named subject, the blessing. Arabic marks the feminine doer through the verb ending rather than a separate pronoun.

From Raised in the Prophet’s Household

فَعَادَ إِلَى مَضْجَعِهِ،

Then he returned to his bed.

فَعَادَ then returned

Led by fa-, the tight connector chaining this return onto the prior day's events as the next step. The past verb carries its own 'he' subject.

From A Stranger Finds the Prophet

فَعَادَ عَلِيُّ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ،

Ali did the same.

فَعَادَ so did again

Led by fa-, the tight connector chaining this onto the prior day's events. The past verb carries its own 'he' subject and a 'did again' sense, named explicitly just after.

From A Stranger Finds the Prophet

ثُمَّ عَادَ مِنْ الْغَدِ لِمِثْلِهَا،

Then he returned the next day to do the same.

عَادَ he returned

A past-tense verb with 'he' built in, carrying the sense of doing something *again*. It heads the new episode introduced by the staging word before it.

From A Stranger Finds the Prophet

فَإِذَا عَادَ إِلَى الشَّوَاغِلِ، اِجْتَذَبَهُ بِآفَاتِهَا،

When he returns to worldly distractions, their afflictions draw him back.

عَادٍ returned

This past-tense verb carries its own 'he' subject as the act inside the 'when' frame: his returning. Arabic uses the past shape here even for a general or future-leaning condition.

From Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness

فَعَادَ الذِّئْبُ عَلَى أَحَدِهِمَا

Then a wolf came upon one of them.

فَعدا then came upon

A consequence-marking 'then/so' is welded to the front of a past-tense verb, pushing the story forward to the next beat. The 'then' here signals a tighter, more immediate follow-on than a plain 'and' would. The verb's 'he/it' subject is carried inside it, and it leans on the preposition after it to reach what it acted upon.

From Stories of Prophetic Judgments