تَقَعَfall

Example sentences

• وَأَقَلُّ مِحْنَةِ الْكَبِيرِ أَنْ تَقَعَ النَّوَاةُ فِي الْكُوزِ،

  And the least trial of the elder is that the pit falls into the jug.

  تَقَعَ — fall. A present-tense verb 'fall', shifted into its subjunctive shape because of the preceding 'that'. The change of ending (rather than the plain present) is exactly how Arabic signals that this falling is the supposed content of the clause; it agrees as feminine-singular with 'the pit'.

  From: On Birth and Its Timing →