أَفْرَدَwas assigned

Example sentences

• وَأَفْرَدَ لَهُ مَنْ يَخْدِمُهُ،

  And someone was assigned to serve him.

  وَأَفْرَدَ — and was assigned. The opening wa- is a sentence-linking 'and' that ties this whole statement to the preceding narrative; the verb itself sits in the past tense. Read it as passive: the action is reported with no named doer, so the focus falls on the someone-was-assigned result rather than on whoever did the assigning. Arabic signals this passive by reshaping the internal vowels of the verb, not by adding a helper word the way English uses 'was'.

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