فَجَلَسْتُso I sat down

Example sentences

• ثُمَّ رَجَعْتُ فَجَلَسْتُ وَقَدْ تَرَكْتُ أَخِيَ يَتَوَضَّأُ وَيَلْحَقُنِي،

  Then I returned and sat down, having left my brother performing ablution and about to catch up with me.

  فَجَلَسْتُ — so I sat down. The fa- on the front is a tight 'and so' link, ordering this action immediately after the one before with a sense of consequence. The verb itself is a past 'sat' whose ending already carries the first-person 'I', so the doer is folded into the word rather than written as a separate pronoun.

  From: Three Companions Promised Paradise →