سَالَspilled

Example sentences

• فلما وصل إلى بيته وجد الدبس قد سال كله

  When he reached his home, he found all the molasses had spilled.

  سَالَ — it spilled. A bare past verb 'spilled' with 'it' built in, naming what happened to the molasses.

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• فرجع إلى البائع فقال لقد حملته مقلوبًا كما قلت، فسال كله

  He returned to the seller and said: I carried it upside down as you said, and it all spilled.

  فَسَالَ — and it spilled. This is fa- 'so/and then' plus a past verb 'spilled' with 'it' built in, marking the result as a consequence.

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• فقال البائع أنت أحمق، كان ينبغي أن تحمله مقلوبًا وأنت تسير على رأسك حتى لا يسيل

  The seller said: You are foolish; you should have carried it upside down while walking on your head so it wouldn't spill!

  يَسِيلَ — it spills. A present-tense verb 'spill' in the subjunctive after the 'so that' and 'not' before it; the changed -a ending marks the spilling as the result being warded off, not a fact.

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