يَشْرَبُhe drinks

Example sentences

• فَأُعْطِيهِ الرَّجُلَ فَيَشْرَبُ حَتَّى يَرْوَى،

  So I give it to the man, and he drinks until he is satisfied.

  فَيَشْرَبُ — and he drinks. Begins with the connector 'so/and'; a present-form verb 'drinks' with 'he' built in, narrating the man's drinking. In this narration it reads as the next action in the cycle. Arabic uses present-form verbs to keep the scene vivid.

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• فَأُعْطِيهِ الرَّجُلَ فَيَشْرَبُ حَتَّى يَرْوَى،

  So I gave it to the man, and he drank until he was satisfied.

  فَيَشْرَبُ — and he drank. Begins with the connector 'so/and'; a present-form verb 'drinks' with 'he' built in, narrating the man's drinking, here read as past. Arabic keeps the narration in present-form verbs for vividness. The subject is inside the verb.

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