جَاءcome in Arabic

Example sentences

• فإن جاء آخر ينازعه، فاضربوا عنق الآخر

  If another comes to dispute him, strike the neck of the latter.

  جَاءَ — he comes. A past-tense verb, 'he came', with 'he' built in, serving as the event of the condition. After this 'if', the past shape carries a future-conditional sense, 'if another comes'; the doer is inside the form, and its subject follows.

  From: A Prophet Warns His People →