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Maryam · Ayah 23

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Then drove her

فَأَجَآءَهَا

Then drove her

فHarf · Resumption particle

Resumptive particle: resumes or continues discourse

then

أجاءFi'l · Verb

3rd personMasculineSingularPast

Rootجيا

★★★★Very common

came

Lemmaجَآءَ

Verb (form I) - to come

هاIsm · Personal pronoun

Attached pronoun: functions as object, possessor, or complement (3rd person feminine singular)

her/it

3rd personFeminineSingular

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Past tense verb

فَأَجَآءَهَا (Then drove her) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.

We translate it in past tense — "did", "created", "said", etc.

And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm tree. She said, "Oh, I wish I had died before this and was in oblivion, forgotten."

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