أَنْفَقَاspent

Example sentences

• فأعجب والديه فأنفقا عليه كل مكنوز،

  He amazed his parents, so they spent on him all their treasures.

  فَأَنْفَقَا — so they two spent. The 'so/then' prefix marks this as the consequence, and beneath it a past-tense verb carries a dual 'they two' subject in its ending, agreeing with the two parents. Arabic has a dedicated verb form for two doers, so the ending alone tells you exactly two people did the spending.

  From: God's Promise of New Life →

• فَأَعْجَبَ وَالِدَيْهِ فَأَنْفَقَا عَلَيْهِ كُلَّ مَكْنُونٍ،

  He amazed his parents, so they spent all their hoarded wealth on him.

  فَأَنْفَقَا — so they two spent. 'Fa-' marks the next result, 'so', attaching to a past verb in the dual: the '-a' ending marks exactly two doers, the parents, spending together. The dual is Arabic's dedicated 'precisely two' form, folded into the verb rather than a separate word.

  From: On Birth and Its Timing →