يَكَادُalmost

Example sentences

• وَلَا سَيِّمَا مِمَّنْ لَا يَكَادُ يَعْرِفُ كَلَامَ الْعَرَبِ جَيِّدًا،

  And especially those who hardly know Arabic well,

  يَكَادُ — he almost. A near-verb meaning 'almost / is on the verge of', present tense with a 'he' subject in the form. With the preceding 'la' the idiom flips to 'hardly does', and it governs another present verb after it to say what the person can scarcely do.

  From: Adam, Eve, and the Forbidden Tree →