مَوْتُdeath

Example sentences

• أَتَاهُ الْمَوْتُ،

  Death came to him.

  الْمَوْتُ — death. This noun takes the 'al-' prefix marking it as definite, like English 'the death'. Although it follows the verb, it is actually the doer of the action here, the thing that came; Arabic often places the subject after its verb, so position alone does not tell you the doer, the case ending does.

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