يَغْضَبَbecome angry

Example sentences

• فيقول إن ربي غضب اليوم غضباً لم يغضب قبله مثله، ولن يغضب بعده مثله، وإنه قد كانت لي دعوة دعوت بها على قومي،

  He says, "My Lord was angry today with an anger like none before it, and none like it will be after it, and indeed there was for me a supplication which I invoked against my people,"

  يَغْضَبَ — become angry. A present-tense verb with 'he' inside it, here aimed at the future and made negative by the particle before it: 'nor will he grow angry'. That future-negation particle also shifts the verb's ending, the trace it leaves on the form.

  From: The Prophet's Intercession →

• فيقول عيسى إن ربي غضب اليوم غضباً لم يغضب قبله مثله، ولن يغضب بعده مثله ولم يذكر ذنباً،

  Then Jesus will say, "My Lord was angry today with an anger like none before it, and none like it will be after it, and he did not mention any sin."

  يَغْضَبَ — be angry. Driven by the future-negator before it, this present verb takes the lighter ending that negator forces and reads 'will (never) be angry'; the 'he' subject is inside. Mood comes from the particle.

  From: The Prophet's Intercession →