Arabic vocabulary
فَأَكَلْتُ is how you say “so I ate” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَقَالَ الآخَرُ لَكِنِّي مَعَ رَجُلٍ إِنْ أَكَلَ لَمْ يَسْمِ اللَّهَ فَأَكَلْتُ أَنَا وَهُوَ جَمِيعًا
The other said, 'But I am with a man; if he eats without saying the name of God, then I and he eat together.'
فَأَكْلٍ — so I ate. The 'fa-' opens the result of the condition ('then'), and the rest is a first-person past 'I ate / I eat'. It marks the consequence half of the if-then, the permitted outcome.
From: Staying Firm in Faith →OpenArabic teaches words like فَأَكَلْتُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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