يَحْزَنُgrieves

Example sentences

• وَأَشَارَ بِيَدِهِ إِلَى لِسَانه وَقَالَ تَدْمَع الْعين ويحزن الْقلب وَلَا نقُول إِلَّا مَا يرضى الرب

  And he pointed with his hand to his tongue and said, 'The eye sheds tears, and the heart grieves, but we do not say except what pleases the Lord.'

  وَيَحْزَنُ — and he grieves. A connector plus a present verb, 'and it grieves', with its 'it' built in. Its masculine ending matches the masculine 'heart' that follows, contrasting with the feminine eye-verb just before.

  From: Patience in Hard Times →