يُصْبِحَmorning comes

Example sentences

• فَأَدْعُهُ فَرُبَّمَا كَانَ ذَلِكَ حَتَّى يُصْبِحَ

  So I leave him; perhaps that was until morning.

  يُصْبِحَ — morning comes. A present verb meaning roughly 'morning sets in', sitting in the subjunctive shape because of the limit-particle just before it. After that particle the plain present is cut back, which is how the listener hears the morning's arrival as the goal the waiting runs up to, not as something already true. The reshaped ending is the grammatical clue.

  From: Mothers and the Companions →