اِسْتَغْفَرْنَاكَwe sought your forgiveness

Example sentences

• فَقَالَ إِنْ كَانَ الذَّنْبُ لَنَا فَقَدْ اِسْتَغْفَرْنَاكَ،

  He said, "If the sin is ours, then indeed we sought your forgiveness."

  اِسْتَغْفَرْنَاكَ — we sought your forgiveness. A past-tense seeking-forgiveness verb with its 'we' subject built in by its ending and an attached 'you' as its object, so one word holds doer and addressee. It states the consequence: forgiveness already sought. Both persons ride inside.

  From: On Foolishness and Wisdom →