نَامَاthey both slept

Example sentences

• فَلَمْ أُرِحْ عَلَيْهِمَا حَتَّى نَامَا،

  So I did not let them rest until they both fell asleep.

  نَامَا — they both slept. A past-tense verb whose ending marks a dual 'they two' subject, Arabic's dedicated 'exactly two' form. The dual ending alone counts the sleepers as a pair, so no separate 'both' is needed.

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