مَرَّتَاthey (two females) passed

Example sentences

• فَمَرَّتَا عَلَى سُلَيْمَانِ ﵇

  Then the two of them came to Solomon, peace be upon him.

  فَمَرَّتَا — then they (two females) passed. A 'then' is welded to a past-tense verb that wears the feminine dual ending, so its two female subjects, the women, are marked inside it. The 'then' carries the story to its next move, the women going on to a second judge. The verb keeps the singular form spelled out as a dual, signalling exactly two doers.

  From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →