Arabic vocabulary
يَلْحَقَbefall in Arabic
يَلْحَقَ is how you say “befall” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَتَمَنَّى أَنْ يَلْحَقَ بِهِ
And he wished that it would befall him.
يَلْحَقَ — befall. A present verb in the subjunctive because the 'an' before it demands that mood, shown by the altered ending. It carries its 'it/he' subject inside and leads into the 'with/upon him' phrase. The subjunctive frames the catching-up as the content of the wish.
From: On Reason and Temptation →
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