يَأْكُلُeat

Example sentences

• قال فإنك من أهلها فأخرج تمرات من قرنه فجعل يأكل منهن،

  He said: 'Nothing, O Messenger of Allah, except that I hope to be among its people.' So he said: 'You are indeed among its people.' Then he took out dates from his quiver and began to eat them.

  يَأْكُلُ — to eat. A present-tense verb following a 'began' verb, which is why it reports an ongoing, unfolding action rather than a finished one. Its 'he' subject sits inside the verb shape; paired with the starting verb before it, the two together mean 'began eating'.

  From: A Handful of Dates and Paradise →

• الذِّي يَأْكُلُ بِالْكُفْرِ وَالإِسْلَامِ

  One who lives by both disbelief and Islam.

  يَأْكُلُ — lives by. A present-tense verb with a third-person singular doer in its prefix, literally 'eats', used here for an ongoing, characteristic action. It leads into the prepositional phrase that names by what means he lives, the doer built into the verb.

  From: Three States of the Heart →