مَصْرَعdownfall

Example sentences

• لَقَدْ أَرَاكِ مَصْرَعًا غَيْرَكِ مَصْرَعَكِ،

  Indeed, I see you making someone else's downfall your own.

  مَصْرَعًا — a downfall. An indefinite noun, no 'the', carrying the object ending because it functions as what the seeing falls upon. Naming a 'downfall' or fatal spot, it is the thing observed; the next words specify whose downfall, building the bitter image of borrowing another's ruin.

  From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →

• لَقَدْ أَرَاكِ مَصْرَعًا غَيْرَكِ مَصْرَعَكِ،

  Indeed, I see you making someone else's downfall your own.

  مَصْرَعَكِ — your downfall. A noun with the suffix -ki ('your', female) folded on, so it reads 'your downfall'. Standing against 'other than you' just before, it completes the paradox: you treat someone else's ruin as if it were your own. The possessor is built into the word's ending.

  From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →