كَذَبْتَyou lied

Example sentences

• قال ما تركت من سبيل تحب أن ينفق فيها إلا أنفقت فيها لك، قال كذبت،

  He said, "I have not left any cause you would want money to be spent on without my having spent in it for you." He said, "You lied."

  كَذَبْتَ — you lied. A past-tense verb 'lied' with a built-in 'you' (masculine singular) as subject in its -ta ending - the accusation is aimed squarely at the listener. The doer is inside the verb, so the curt single word already means 'you lied', needing no pronoun. Its bluntness is the whole point: a flat verdict on the preceding claim.

  From: Intentions on Judgment Day →