سَرَيْتَyou set out

Example sentences

• حَدِّثْنِي كَيْفَ صَنَعْتُمَا حِينَ سَرَيْتَ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ

  Tell me how you two behaved when you set out with the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace.

  سَرَيْتَ — you set out. A past-tense verb whose '-ta' ending means 'you' (one male), so the singular addressee is built in. It pins down the moment the time-word 'when' set up, the night of setting out. The '-ta' is exactly how Arabic marks a second-person masculine singular doer.

  From: A Night with the Prophet →