انْحَدَرَdescend

Example sentences

• فانحدرت صخرة من الجبل فسدت عليهم الغار،

  Then a rock fell down from the mountain and blocked the entrance of the cave.

  فَانْحَدَرَتْ — so it fell down. This joins the connector fa- ('and then') to a verb whose shape is the self-acting (reflexive) pattern: the rock comes down of its own accord, with no outside pusher named. Arabic builds this 'it happened to itself' sense by reshaping the verb rather than adding a helper word.

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