تَزَعْمُclaim in Arabic

Example sentences

• فَقَالَ لَهُ أَلَسْتَ تَزَعْمُ أَنَّهُ لَا يُصِيبُكَ إِلَّا مَا كُتِبَ اللَّهُ لَكَ

  So he said to him, "Do you not claim that nothing will befall you except what God has decreed for you?"

  تَزَعْمُ — you claim. A present-tense verb, 'you claim', with the second-person singular addressee built into its shape. It sits inside the question as the action being challenged, and it sets up the 'that'-clause coming next, which spells out the content of the claim.

  From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →