تَكَلَّمْتَyou spoke

Example sentences

• فَإِنَّكَ إِذَا تَكَلَّمْتَ بِالْكَلِمَةِ مَلَكَتْكَ وَلَمْ تَمْلِكْهَا

  For indeed, when you speak a word, it possesses you and you do not possess it.

  تَكَلَّمْتَ — you speak. Though built on the past-tense pattern, after the 'whenever' word this verb reads as a timeless general action, the way English uses a bare present in proverbs. The form carries a 'you' subject inside it, so no separate pronoun is needed.

  From: Silence and Supplication →