رُدَّis pointed out in Arabic

Example sentences

• فَالْعَالِمُ مِنْهُمْ يَغْضَبُ إِنْ رُدَّ عَلَيْهِ خَطَؤُهُ،

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

  رُدَّ — is pointed out. This is the passive of the verb: it does not say who does the correcting, only that the action lands on its target. Arabic marks the passive not with a helper word like English 'is' but by reshaping the verb's inner vowels, so the doer drops out of view and the focus falls on the mistake being thrown back.

  From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →