ظَنُّواthey thought

Example sentences

• وَظَنُّوا أَنَّ وَلَدَهُ يَتَغَيَّرُ عَلَيْهِ

  And they thought that his son would change their minds about him.

  وَظَنُّوا — and they thought. A coordinating wa- ('and') on a past-tense verb with the plural 'they' inside; this is a verb of thinking, which opens a 'that...' clause as its object. The wa- chains the supposing onto the prior action.

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