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عَلِمَا they knew in Arabic

عَلِمَا is how you say “they knew” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ اِنْفَتَحَتْ أَعْيُنُهُمَا وَعَلِمَا أَنَّهُمَا عُرْيَانَانِ،

At that moment their eyes opened, and they realized they were naked.

وَعَلِمَا and they both realized

'Wa-' adds the next action, attaching to a past verb in the dual: '-a' on the end marks exactly two doers, Adam and Eve, realising together. The dual is a dedicated 'precisely two' form English lacks, folding 'the two of them' into the verb itself.

From Adam, Eve, and the Forbidden Tree

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