Arabic vocabulary
فَأَخَذَتَاthey began to
How to say “they began to” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَأَخَذَتَا يَخْتَصِمَانِ فِي الصَّبِيِّ الْبَاقِيِّ
They then began to argue over the remaining child.
فَأَخَذَتَا — then they began to. A 'then' is fused to a past-tense verb that here means 'set about / began to', a verb that hands off the main action to the verb following it. Its ending is the dual, so the two women are the subjects doing the beginning. This 'began-to' verb plus the next verb work as a team to express 'they two started arguing'.
From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →
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