Arabic vocabulary
أَصَابَتْ is how you say “befalls” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَقَالَ تَعَالَى وَبَشِّرِ الصَّابِرِينَ الَّذِينَ إِذَا أَصَابَتْهُمْ مُصِيبَةٌ قَالُوا إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ
And He, the Exalted, said, "And give glad tidings to the patient ones, those who, when a misfortune befalls them, say, 'Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we will return.'"
أَصَابَتْهُمْ — befalls them. A completed-action verb in the feminine, agreeing with the feminine noun 'misfortune' that follows, plus 'them' attached as object. The feminine shape and the object suffix together give 'strikes them'.
From: Patience and God's Help →OpenArabic teaches words like أَصَابَتْ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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