يَفْهَمُhe understands in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَلا يَفْهَمُ حَدِيثًا ،

  And he does not understand a hadith,

  يَفْهَمُ — he understands. A present-tense verb, third-person masculine singular, the doer 'he' carried in its prefix, falling under the negator before it. It completes 'and does not understand', the negation turning his comprehension into its absence.

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• وَفِعْلُهُ فِعْلُ مَنْ لَا يَفْهَمُ وَلَا يَدْرِي

  And his action is that of someone who neither understands nor knows!

  يَفْهَمُ — he understands. A present-tense verb carrying its 'he' subject inside, negated by the particle before it to mean 'does not understand'. Inside the relative clause it describes the witless person, the first of two paired negatives that together damn his lack of awareness.

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