Arabic vocabulary
يَقَعَfall in Arabic
يَقَعَ is how you say “fall” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
كَالرَّاعِي يرْعَى حول الْحمى يُوشك أَن يَقع فِيهِ
Like a shepherd grazing around a sanctuary, he is likely to fall into it.
يَقَعَ — he falls. Verb in its subjunctive shape, triggered by the 'that' just before it, meaning 'he should fall'. The altered ending signals the action is the prospect being approached, not something already happening, completing the 'about to fall' idea.
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