كَلَّمَتْنَاspoke to us

Example sentences

• اِسْتَعْجَمْتُ دَارِ نِعَمٍ مَا تَكَلَّمْنَا وَالدَّارُ لَوْ كَلَّمَتْنَا ذَاتُ أَخْبَارٍ

  I was astonished at the House of Blessings; we did not speak, and if the house spoke to us, it would have many stories.

  كَلَّمَتْنَا — spoke to us. A past-tense verb with the feminine doer 'she/it' built into its shape and -na fused on as the object 'us'. The feminine subject agrees with 'the house', so this means 'the house spoke to us', subject and object both inside one word.

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