يَدْخُلْenter

Example sentences

• فَقَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ قُولِي لَهُ يَدْخُلْ وَحْدَهُ

  So Muhammad ibn Sulayman said, "Tell him to enter alone."

  يَدْخُلُ — he enters. A present-tense verb in its clipped jussive shape, carrying the force of an indirect command, 'let him enter'. Arabic uses this jussive form to issue a third-person order, 'let X do', without a separate 'let'.

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