وُقُوعِhaving sexual relations

Example sentences

• فَتَحَرَّجْتُ مِنَ الْوُقُوعِ عَلَيْهَا،

  So I was ashamed to have sexual relations with her.

  الْوُقُوعِ — having sexual relations. A definite verbal noun, an action turned into a thing you can name and govern, here standing as what the speaker shrank from. It is governed by the 'from' before it and so sits in the genitive, the noun-form Arabic uses to talk about an act in the abstract.

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