حَيِيتُlive

Example sentences

• ثم قال لئن أنا حييت حتى آكل تمراتي هذه إنها لحياة طويلة

  Then he said: 'If I live until I eat my dates, it will indeed be a long life!'

  حَيِيتُ — I live. A past-tense verb meaning 'I lived/survived', with the -tu ending marking the 'I' doer. The doubled-root spelling is just how this particular root behaves; the key grammar is that the speaker-subject is carried by the ending, not a separate word.

  From: A Handful of Dates and Paradise →