أَجِدُfind in Arabic

Example sentences

• ولكن لا أجد سعة فأحملهم ولا يجدون سعة عليهم أن يتخلفوا عني،

  but I do not find the means to provide mounts for them, nor do they find the means to go out on their own,

  أَجِدُ — I find. A present-tense verb, 'I find', with the 'I' subject built into its form. Under the preceding negator it reads 'I do not find'; the speaker is folded into the verb, needing no separate 'I'.

  From: Paradise for Those Who Strive →

• وَكُنْتُ أَجِدُ مَعَ ذَلِكَ حَرَارَةً فِي صَدْرِي لَا تَكَادُ تَسْكُنُ

  And I used to feel a burning in my chest that scarcely subsided.

  أَجِدُ — I feel. A first-person present verb, 'I feel/find', with the 'I' in its prefix. Leaning on the past 'to be' before it, its present shape reads as a past habit, a recurring feeling rather than a single moment. The present form supplies the ongoing, repeated sense; the earlier verb supplies the past time.

  From: Mothers and the Companions →

• فَذَهَبَ عَنْ مَا كُنْتُ أَجِدُ

  So what I used to feel has gone.

  أَجِدُ — I feel. A first-person present verb, 'I feel/find', with the 'I' in its prefix. Leaning on the past 'to be' before it, its present shape reads as a past habit, the feeling she kept having. The present form supplies the ongoing sense; the earlier verb supplies the pastness.

  From: Mothers and the Companions →

• مَا أَجِدُ لَهُ مَسْلَكًا

  I can find no way for him.

  أَجِدُ — I can find. A present-tense verb with 'I' fused into its opening sound, so the speaker is named without a separate pronoun. Negated by the particle before it, it states an inability in the here-and-now. The object of the search comes later in the clause, so this verb is left expecting something to complete it.

  From: Generosity to the Poor →