يُجَفِّفُdries

Example sentences

• والمالح يجفف البدن ويهزله

  Saltiness dries the body and makes it emaciated.

  يُجَفِّفُ — it dries. This present-tense verb, 'it dries out', has its masculine singular subject built in, pointing back to 'the salty'. The verb agrees with that topic and then governs the object after it; the doer lives inside the verb's form.

  From: The Art of Eating Well →

• فَيُقَشِّرُهُ وَيُجَفِّفُهُ فِي الصَّيْفِ،

  He then peels it and dries it in the summer.

  وَيُجَفِّفُهُ — and he dries it. Built the same way as the verb before it: a joining wa- ('and') on the front, the present verb 'he dries', and the object -hu on the back, all in one word. The doubled middle letter (the shadda you can hear as a held consonant) marks an intensive, deliberate pattern of the verb, the sense of thoroughly drying something rather than just letting it dry. The -hu again tracks the same item being processed, keeping the chain of actions on one object.

  From: Mothers and the Companions →