قُلْنَاwe said

Example sentences

• فَقَالَ أَصَلَّى النَّاسُ قُلْنَا لَا،

  He said, "Have the people prayed?" We said, "No."

  قُلْنَا — we said. A completed past verb whose ending marks a first-person plural 'we'; the subject is built into the verb. It frames the collective reply.

  From: Prayer During Illness →

• قُلْنَا لَا، هُمْ يَنْتَظِرُونَكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ

  We said, "No; they are waiting for you, O Messenger of God."

  قُلْنَا — we said. A completed past verb of speaking with a first-person plural 'we' in its ending; the subject is inside the verb. It introduces the group's reply.

  From: Prayer During Illness →

• ثُمَّ أَفَاقَ فَقَالَ أَصَلَّى النَّاسُ؟ قُلْنَا لَا،

  Then he regained consciousness and asked, "Did the people pray?" We said, "No."

  قِلَّنَا — we said. A completed past verb of speaking with a first-person plural 'we' in its ending; the subject lives inside the verb, framing the collective reply.

  From: Prayer During Illness →

• ثُمَّ أَفَاقَ فَقَالَ أَصَلَّى النَّاسُ فَقُلْنَا لَا،

  Then he regained consciousness and asked, "Had the people prayed?" We said, "No."

  فَقُلْنَا — so we said. A sequencing fa-, 'so we said', with a first-person plural 'we' folded into the completed past verb's ending; the reply flows from the question.

  From: Prayer During Illness →

• فَكَلَّمَتْهُ أُمُّ سَلَمَةِ بِمَا قُلْنَا،

  Then Umm Salama spoke to him about what we said.

  قُلْنَا — we said. A past-tense verb whose 'we' ending is built into its tail, so the speakers are named inside the word; it stands as the verb of the 'what we said' clause. The first-person plural ending is how Arabic carries 'we' without a separate pronoun.

  From: Wives of the Prophet →

• فَقُلْنَا لَهَا فَكَلِّمِيهِ،

  So we said to her, 'Then speak to him.'

  فَقُلْنَ — so we said. Two forces in one word: the fa- chains the clause with a light 'so', and the past verb's ending marks 'we', the first-person plural built into its tail. The prefix links the speech while the verb names the speakers without a separate pronoun.

  From: Wives of the Prophet →