يَحْتَوِيcontain

Example sentences

• فَإِذَا بِهِ يَحْتَوِي عَلَى سِتَّةِ آلاَفٍ مُجَلَّدٍ،

  Then it contained six thousand volumes.

  يَحْتَوِي — contains. A present-tense verb meaning 'contains', with its 'it' subject built in. Inside this past narrative the present tense paints the state found at that moment, what the register held when examined. The form names a static, ongoing condition rather than an event.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →