خَطَؤُهُhis mistake

Example sentences

• فَالْعَالِمُ مِنْهُمْ يَغْضَبُ إِنْ رُدَّ عَلَيْهِ خَطَؤُهُ،

  So the scholar among them becomes angry if his mistake is pointed out to him.

  خَطَؤُهُ — his mistake. A noun carrying the owner -hu ('his') on its end, naming whose mistake it is. With the passive verb just before it, this is the thing that undergoes the action, the logical subject of being-pointed-out, which is why it takes the doer-style nominative ending even though it is what gets corrected.

  From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →