جَاءَتْcome

Example sentences

• وَمَا يَشْعُرُكُمْ أَنَّهَا إِذَا جَاءَتْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ

  And what makes you think that when it comes they will not believe?

  جَاءَتْ — it comes. A past-tense verb carrying a feminine mark to agree with its doer, the sign, used after 'when' to describe a forthcoming event. Arabic often uses the past form after this 'when' even for something not yet realized, where English uses a present 'comes'.

  From: Truthfulness and Righteousness →

• وَمَا يَدْرِيكُمْ أَنَّهَا إِذَا جَاءَتْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ

  And what makes you certain that when it comes they will not believe?

  جَاءَتْ — it comes. A past-tense verb with a feminine agreement mark for its doer, the sign, used after 'when' for a forthcoming event. The past form here covers a not-yet event, which English renders with a present 'comes'.

  From: Truthfulness and Righteousness →

• تَكُونُ جَزْمًا بِأَنَّهَا إِذَا جَاءَتْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ

  It becomes a statement of certainty that when it comes they will not believe.

  جَاءَتْ — it comes. A past-tense verb with a feminine agreement mark for its doer, the sign, used after 'when' for an expected event. The past form covers a future-leaning happening, which English renders with present 'comes'.

  From: Truthfulness and Righteousness →

• فَجَاءَتْ اَلْبِشَارَةُ فِي كَانُونِ اَلْيَأْسِ بِآمَالِ تَمُّوزِ،

  Then the good news came in the December of despair, bringing the hopes of July.

  فَجَاءَتْ — then she came. The fa- on the front is a 'then/so' link that drives the story one beat forward, tying this arrival to what preceded it; unlike English 'and', it signals consequence and tight sequence. The verb itself is a completed past act, and its tail vowel quietly carries 'she', so no separate word for the subject is needed.

  From: On Birth and Its Timing →

• فَجَاءَتْنِي فَأَعْطَيْتُهَا عِشْرِينَ وَمِائَةَ دِينَارٍ

  Then she came to me, so I gave her one hundred and twenty dinars.

  فَجَاءَتْنِي — then she came to me. A past-tense verb 'came' with a feminine 'she' ending, fronted by fa- and closing with an attached 'me' pronoun marking the speaker as the goal. The fa- moves the story on, and the suffix shows she came toward him, so one word holds connector, verb, subject and destination.

  From: Trapped and Delivered →

• فَكَانَ لَا يَرَى رُؤْيًا إِلَّا جَاءَتْ مِثْلَ فَلَقِ الصُّبْحِ،

  He would see no vision except that it came like the break of dawn.

  جَاءَتْ — it came. A past verb whose feminine ending points its hidden 'she/it' back to the vision, a feminine noun, rather than to any nearer word. Tracking that the coming belongs to the vision is what makes the simile that follows cohere.

  From: The Night of Revelation and Consolation →

• كَانَ يُصَلِّي، فَجَاءَتْهُ أُمُّهُ فَدَعَتْهُ،

  He was praying, then his mother came to him and called him.

  فَجَاءَتْهُ — then came to him. The fa- on the front pivots the story to the next beat -- one event follows straight on from the last -- and the -hu hooked on the end is the goal of the coming: she came to HIM. So this single word packs the link, the verb, and its target together.

  From: Those Who Spoke in the Cradle →