يَكْسِبُgives

Example sentences

• الَّذِي يَكْسِبُهَا نَشَاطًا لِلْجِدِّ فَكَأَنَّهَا مِنَ الْجِدِّ لَمْ تَزَلْ،

  which gives it a zeal for seriousness, so that it seems to have always been serious.

  يَكْسِبُهَا — gives it. A present-tense verb ending in -ha 'it', so the object is fused onto the verb. The doer is the amusement (via the relative), and the -ha points back to the self/soul, so the verb means 'which gives it...', subject and object both tracked across the clause.

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