يَقُولُهَاhe says it

Example sentences

• قَالَ أَلَيْسَ كَانَ يَقُولُهَا فِي حَيَاتِهِ ؟

  He said, "Didn't he use to say it in his lifetime?"

  يَقُولُهَا — he says it. A present-tense verb 'he says' with a feminine object -ha attached, the 'he' inside the verb. Resting on the past 'to be' before it, its present shape reads as a past habit, what he used to keep saying. The -ha points to the creed-phrase, treated as a feminine 'it'.

  From: A Mother's Forgiveness →