تَأْتِيcomes

Example sentences

• ما تأتي عبرة مثل أن أباك وأمك ماتا،

  No lesson is as profound as the fact that your father and mother have passed away,

  تَأْتِي — comes. A present-tense verb meaning 'comes', its feminine 'it' subject agreeing with the lesson that follows. Caught under the negation before it, the pair means 'no lesson comes', and the verb stands before its subject in normal Arabic order.

  From: Death and Decree →

• وَتَأْتِي الْمَرْأَةُ لِتَسْأَلَهُ وَتَقُولُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ،

  And the woman comes to ask him and says, 'O Messenger of God,'

  وَتَأْتِي — and she comes. The connector wa- ('and') fused onto a present-tense verb 'comes' carrying a feminine 'she'. The wa- opens a fresh coordinate scene about the woman. The verb's feminine 'she' looks ahead to the female subject named next. It shifts the illustration from a man to a woman.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →