مَرَّتْthen it passed

Example sentences

• فَمَرَّتْ كَتِيبَةٌ قَالَ يَا عَبَّاسُ مَنْ هَذِهِ

  Then a detachment passed by. He said, "O Abbas, who are these?"

  فَمَرَّتْ — then it passed. The prefix fa- ('then') on a past verb 'passed', whose '-at' ending marks a feminine subject, agreeing with the feminine 'detachment' that follows. The fa- moves the narration to the next group filing by.

  From: Conquest of Mecca Account →

• ثُمَّ مَرَّتْ جُهَيْنَةُ،

  Then Juhayna passed by.

  مَرَّتْ — she passed. A past-tense verb 'passed', whose '-at' ending marks a feminine subject, agreeing with the feminine tribe-name that follows. The doer is then named, in the regular verb-then-subject order.

  From: Conquest of Mecca Account →

• ثُمَّ مَرَّتْ سَعْدُ بْنُ هُذَيْمٍ،

  Then Sa'd ibn Hudhaym passed by.

  مَرَّتْ — passed by. A past-tense verb 'passed' carrying the feminine '-at' ending. Here the named group is grammatically treated as feminine (as tribes often are), which is why the verb takes that feminine marker even before a man's name appears.

  From: Conquest of Mecca Account →