تَكَلَّمْنَاwe spoke

Example sentences

• اِسْتَعْجَمْتُ دَارِ نِعَمٍ مَا تَكَلَّمْنَا وَالدَّارُ لَوْ كَلَّمَتْنَا ذَاتُ أَخْبَارٍ

  I was astonished at the House of Blessings; we did not speak, and if the house spoke to us, it would have many stories.

  تَكَلَّمْنَا — we spoke. A past-tense verb with -na fused on as the 'we' subject, so the doers live inside the verb's tail. The negation before it flips it to 'we did not speak', with subject and action carried in one word.

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