جاءcomes

Example sentences

• وَقسم سِيبَوَيْهٍ الْكَلَام إِلَى اسْم وَفعل وحرف جَاءَ لِمَعْنى لَيْسَ باسم وَلَا فعل،

  And Sibawayh divided speech into noun, verb, and letter that comes for meaning, not as a noun or a verb.

  جَاءَ — that comes. Past 'came', subject 'it' inside, describing the particle — 'that comes [for a meaning]'. With the noun indefinite, the bare verb works as 'which comes'.

  From: The Declaration of Faith →

• لَكِن خَاصَّة الثَّالِث أَنه حرف جَاءَ لِمَعْنى لَيْسَ باسم

  But specifically the third, it is a letter that comes for meaning, not as a noun.

  جَاءَ — that comes. Past 'came', subject 'it' inside, describing the particle — 'that came for a meaning'. The bare verb on an indefinite noun works as 'which comes'.

  From: The Declaration of Faith →

• فيهم فلان ليس منهم، إنما جاء لحاجة،

  Among them is so-and-so who is not one of them; he only came for a need.

  جَاءَ — he came. A past verb 'came', subject 'he' inside — the man's coming, limited by 'only' to a single motive. The reason follows.

  From: Where Angels Gather →

• واعتبر ما جاء به الرسول بها

  And measured what the Messenger brought against them.

  جَاءَ — he brought. Past-tense 'he brought/came with', subject 'he' built in, inside the relative clause 'what... he brought'. The verb carries the doer internally.

  From: Proof in All Creation →

• فخرج الجصاص مسرورًا، فلقي رجلاً فقال له من أين جئت بهذه الدراهم؟

  Al-Jassas went out happily and met a man who asked him: Where did you get this money from?

  جِئْتَ — did you get. The -ta ending is the built-in 'you' (one man) doing the action; the second-person subject lives inside the verb. Its weak-final root is why the form ends in -ta on a softened stem.

  From: The Reward of Giving →

• فجاءنى بعد حين فقال يا عبد الله أدّ إلى أجرى، فقلت كل ما ترى من أجرك من الإبل والبقر والغنم والرقيق

  After some time, he returned to me and said: 'O Servant of Allah, return my wages to me.' I said: 'Look at everything you see; it is all from your wages: camels, cows, sheep, and servants.'

  فَجَاءَنِي — he returned to me. This stacks the connector fa- onto a past-tense verb plus -ni ('to me'): 'so he came to me'. The fa- moves the story forward to the worker's return, and -ni is the object-shape Arabic uses for 'me' after a verb.

  From: Three Men Saved by Sincerity →