تَنَاوَلْtake

Example sentences

• وَلَمْ يَتَنَاوَلْ مِنْهَا شَيْئًا،

  And he did not take any of it.

  يَتَنَاوَلْ — he take. A present-form verb 'take' forced into its clipped, vowelless ending because 'did not' governs it, giving past 'did not take'; the 'he' subject is built in. This added-letter verb pattern carries a 'take for oneself' sense. The clipped ending is the visible mark of the past negation.

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