تَأْتِcome

Example sentences

• لَهَا ظِلٌّ لَمْ تَأْتِ عَلَيْهِ الشَّمْسُ فَنَزَلْنَا عِنْدَهُ،

  It had a shade that the sun did not come upon, so we descended by it.

  تَأْتِ — come. A present-shaped verb that here reads as a negated past, 'did not come', because the negator before it pulls the meaning into the past and clips its ending. That shortened ending is the verb's response to the negator, not a separate tense. Its built-in subject is 'it', the sun, named just after.

  From: A Night with the Prophet →