عَلِمَاthey knew

Example sentences

• 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 →