جَاءَتْنِيshe came to me

Example sentences

• فأردتها على نفسها فامتنعت منى حتى ألمّت بها سنة من السنين فجاءتنى فأعطيتها عشرين ومائة دينار على أن تخلى بينى وبين نفسها ففعلت، حتى إذا قدرت عليها

  I returned her to her own custody, but she withheld herself from me until a year of the years befell her. Then she came to me and I gave her one hundred and twenty dinars on the condition that she relinquish between me and her self; she did so, until when I gained power over her.

  فَجَاءَتْنِي — so she came to me. This stacks the connector fa- onto a past-tense verb plus -ni ('to me'): 'so she came to me'. The fa- moves the story to her approach, and the special -ni form is the object-shape Arabic uses for 'me' after a verb.

  From: Three Men Saved by Sincerity →