تَقُولَto say

Example sentences

• فَجَعَلَتْ أَنْ تَقُولَ مَتَى تَصْدِيقًا لِمَا أَتَى مِنَ الْوَعْدِ يَا فَتًى،

  So she began to say, "When will there be confirmation of what has come of the promise, O young man?"

  تَقَوُّلٌ — to say. This is the present-tense verb governed by the particle just before it, which is why it carries the subjunctive ending rather than the ordinary one. Together the pair expresses the act of saying as the thing she set about doing, not as a free-standing fact.

  From: On Birth and Its Timing →