قَعَتْtook place

Example sentences

• وَفِيهِ مُنَاظَرَاتُهُ وَمَجَالِسُهُ الَّتِي وَقَعَتْ لَهُ،

  And in it are his debates and his sessions that took place for him,

  وَقَعَتْ — took place. A past-tense verb of happening, its -at ending marking a feminine subject to agree with the sessions inside the relative clause. The agreement is what links the verb to the right noun. It reports that those sessions occurred.

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• فَإِذَا وَقَعَتْ عُقُوبَةٌ لِتَمْحَصَ ذَنْبًا،

  So when a punishment befalls to test a sin,

  وَقَعَتْ — it befell. A past-tense feminine verb whose feminine ending agrees with its subject 'punishment', which follows it. Inside a 'when' clause it reads as a general 'befalls' rather than a one-time past event. Arabic places the subject after the verb here, which is ordinary word order, not a sign of an object.

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