صَنَعْتُمَاyou two did

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.

  صَنَعْتُمَا — you two did. A past-tense verb in the dual, its '-tuma' ending meaning 'you two' specifically, a form English lacks. Arabic has a dedicated shape for exactly two doers, folded into the verb itself. So this single word says 'the two of you did' without any separate 'two'.

  From: A Night with the Prophet →