تُخَاطِبُyou have been addressing

Example sentences

• تَعْلَمُ مَنْ تُخَاطِبُ مُنْذُ ثَلاَثِ لَيَالٍ يَا أَبَ هُرَيْرَةَ

  You know whom you have been addressing for three nights, O Abu Hurayrah.

  تُخَاطِبُ — you have been addressing. A verb of the dialogue pattern, built to mean addressing someone, with 'you' as its subject; its shape implies a back-and-forth over the nights. It fills out the relative clause, telling who the unnamed person is by what the listener has been doing with them.

  From: The Verse of the Throne →