أَسْرَىto spend the night

Example sentences

• قَالَ نَعَمْ أَسْرَيْنَا لَيْلَتَنَا،

  He said, "Yes, we spent the night."

  أَسْرَيْنَا — we spent the night. A past-tense verb whose '-na' ending means 'we', so the plural subject sits inside the form. It reports the night-journeying the group did. Arabic encodes the first-person plural doer in this ending rather than with a separate 'we'.

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