يُوقِدُhe lights

Example sentences

• فَيُوقِدُ وَقُودًا رَفِيقًا

  Then he lights some thin kindling.

  فَيُوقَدُ — then he lights. A leading fa- chains this onto the previous step as 'then', followed by the present-tense verb 'he lights', with the 'he' carried inside the verb. The verb is active: the man does the lighting, he is the one acting on the fuel. Arabic keeps the sequencing word and the verb fused into one written unit.

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