سَكْرَانًاdrunk

Example sentences

• وَتُصْبِحُ سَكْرَانًا

  And you wake up drunk.

  سكران — drunk. This descriptive word completes the 'become' verb and so takes the accusative ending the verb assigns to its predicate. Its shape is the pattern Arabic uses for someone overcome by a state, here 'drunk'. The accusative is the grammatical tie binding it to the unspoken 'you' as the state that 'you' end up in.

  From: A Night of Reckoning →