أَسْمَعُI hear

Example sentences

• وَغِبْتُ عَنْهُ بِحَيْثُ أَسْمَعُ حَسَّهُ وَلَا أَرَى شَخْصَهُ

  I withdrew from him so that I could hear his sound, but I could not see his person.

  أَسْمَعُ — I hear. A present-tense verb with 'I' built into its prefix, 'I hear', sitting inside the result-clause. The present describes the ongoing capacity the distance left him with: he could still catch sounds. It pairs with the negated 'see' later to draw the careful line between hearing and sight.

  From: A Night of Reckoning →