أَرَدْتَyou want

Example sentences

• إِذَا أَرَدْتَ أَنْ تُؤَاخِيَ رَجُلًا فَأَغْضِبْهُ قَبْلَ ذَلِكَ

  If you want to make a man your brother, then anger him before that.

  أردْت — you want. A past-tense verb of wanting carrying a 'you' suffix as its subject. After the conditional opener the perfect reads as a present condition, 'when you want', not a finished past. It leads into the 'to...' clause naming what is wanted.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →