أخذtake

Example sentences

• فقال العطار خذ هذا الدواء واجعله في إحدى عينيه

  The herbalist said, 'Take this medicine and put it in one of its eyes.'

  خذ — take. A command-verb, 'take', the bare order shape addressed to 'you'. It opens the herbalist's quoted instruction.

  From: Reflections on Literal Obedience →

• فأخذ جحا الدواء وذهب به إلى الحمار ووضعه في عينه،

  Joha took the medicine and went to the donkey and put it in its eye,

  فأخذ — so he took. The connector 'so' fused to a past-tense verb, 'took', whose subject is named right after. It carries the story to Joha's action.

  From: Reflections on Literal Obedience →