عَلِمْتَ you knew in Arabic
عَلِمْتَ is how you say “you knew” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَقَالَ لِي يَا أَبَا سَعِيدٍ أَمَّا عَلِمْتَ أَنِّي لَا أَخَافُ مِنَ الْعَصَا وَلَا مِنَ الأَسْلِحَةِ
So he said to me, "O Abu Sa'id, did you not know that I do not fear the stick or the weapons?"
عَلِمْتَ you knew
A past-tense verb of knowing carrying a 'you' suffix as its subject, 'you knew'. Paired with the rhetorical opener it builds 'did you not know', a prod rather than a real inquiry. It leads into the 'that...' clause stating what should have been known.
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أَتَراكَ مَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّ الْأَمْرَ بِعَوَاقِبِهِ؟
Do you think you did not know that the matter has its consequences?!
عَلِمْتَ you knew
A past-tense verb with the suffix '-ta' marking a 'you' (masculine) doer, so 'you knew' is one word. Negated before it, it forms 'you did not know', the thing the rhetorical question challenges.