لَأَطْعَمَهُwould have fed him

Example sentences

• وَقَالُوا ﴿أَنْ نُطْعِمَ مَن لَوْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ لَأَطْعَمَهُ﴾

  And they said, "Should we feed one whom, if God had willed, He would have fed?"

  لَأَطْعَمَهُ — would have fed him. This bundles a result-marking prefix, 'then/surely', with a past verb and a tail -hu, 'him', as object, 'would have fed him'. The prefix flags the apodosis of the counterfactual and the suffix names who would have been fed, closing their rhetorical point.

  From: Patience Under Decree →