Arabic vocabulary
يَقَعُ is how you say “occur” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَاللَّهِ مَا كَانَ يَقَعُ فِي نَفْسِي إِلَّا ذَاكَ
By God, nothing occurred in my mind except that.
يَقَعُ — it occurred. A present-tense verb leaning on the 'used to' helper before it to read as a repeated past, 'kept occurring'. Its built-in 'it' refers to the thought in the speaker's mind.
From: Abu Bakr After the Prophet →OpenArabic teaches words like يَقَعُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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