يَأْتِيَنَاhe comes to us

Example sentences

• كُنَّا نَخَافُ أَنْ يَأْتِيَنَا،

  We were afraid that he would come to us.

  يَأْتِيَنَا — he would come to us. A present verb 'he comes' in its goal-shape ending after 'that', with a single 'us' object fused on the end; the ending marks the coming as the feared possibility. One word carries the male doer, the verb, and 'to us'.

  From: Umar and the Prophet's Wives →