اتَّخَذَtake

Example sentences

• وذكر كذلك الذين اتخذوا العلم وسيلة وغرضا لتحصيل ملذات الدنيا وحطامها الفاني،

  He also mentioned those who took knowledge as a means and a goal to acquire the pleasures of the fleeting world and its perishable goods.

  اتَّخَذُوا — they took. A past-tense verb whose ending marks a 'they' plural subject, so the doer is already inside the verb. It belongs to a pattern of verb that often carries a sense of taking something for oneself, fitting 'took for themselves'.

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