Arabic vocabulary
وَقَعَoccurs
How to say “occurs” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَقَدْ يَقَعُ التَّسَاوِي بَيْنَهُمَا فِي الْمَيْلِ بِالْهَوَى
And there may be equality between them in inclination towards desire.
يَقَعُ — it happens. Present-tense verb with 'it' built in — literally 'falls out, comes to pass'. Paired with the preceding 'may', it reads 'may happen'.
From: The Discipline of Foresight →كَمَا يَقع فِي بعض ذَلِك طَائِفَة من المتصوفة
As happens with some groups of Sufis.
يَقَعُ — it happens. A present-tense verb, 'happens, falls out', carrying its 'it' subject inside the form — no separate pronoun needed. Arabic routinely folds the subject into the verb, so this one word is a full 'it happens'.
From: Worship God Alone →وَمَنْ وَقَعَ فِي الشُّبُهَاتِ وَقَعَ فِي الْحَرَامِ،
And whoever falls into doubtful matters falls into the unlawful.
وَقَعَ — he falls. A past verb, 'fell', subject 'he' inside, serving as the condition. With the 'into' that follows it means landing in something: 'whoever falls into...'.
From: The Lawful, the Forbidden, and the Grey →وَمَنْ وَقَعَ فِي الشُّبُهَاتِ وَقَعَ فِي الْحَرَامِ،
And whoever falls into doubtful matters falls into the unlawful.
وَقَعَ — he falls. The same 'fell' verb repeated as the result of the condition: 'falls into the forbidden'. Repeating the verb is Arabic's way of binding the condition to its consequence.
From: The Lawful, the Forbidden, and the Grey →فإن العبد إذا وقع في شدة فإما أن يدفعها بقوته أو قوة من ينصره
For when a servant falls into hardship, he either repels it with his own strength or the strength of someone who helps him.
وَقَعَ — he falls. A past-tense verb 'he falls into', its 'he' subject inside the form, opening the 'when' clause. Its past shape after 'when' reads as a general, repeatable event rather than one past moment.
From: Preparing for Judgment Day →فإن العبد إذا وقع في شدة فإما أن يدفعها بقوته أو قوة من ينصره وكلاهما معدوم في حقه
For when the servant falls into distress, he either repels it with his strength or with the strength of one who aids him, and both are absent in his case.
وَقَعَ — he falls. A past-tense verb 'he fell' with the doer built in, the servant. Inside a 'when' clause this past form reads as a general condition, 'whenever he falls', rather than a single past event.
From: Signs of Resurrection →وهو الناصر فإن العبد إذا وقع في شدة فإما أن يدفعها بقوته أو قوة من ينصره وكلاهما معدوم في حقه
He is the helper, for when the servant falls into distress, he may either repel it with his own strength or with the strength of someone who helps him; both of these are absent in his case.
وَقَعَ — he falls. This is a completed-action verb 'he fell', but inside the 'whenever' frame it reads as a timeless general case, 'falls', not a single past event. Arabic regularly uses the past form after this conditional to express a habitual or any-time situation.
From: Oaths That Seal the Truth →وهو سبحانه إنما يستدل على أمر واقع ولا بد إما قد وقع ووجد أو سيقع
And He, glorified be He, uses evidence only for an actual matter that must have either already occurred or will occur.
وَقَعَ — it occurred. This is a plain past-tense verb with its 'it/he' subject carried inside, meaning the event has happened. No separate subject word is needed because the verb form itself names the doer, which is why one Arabic word equals a full English 'it occurred'.
From: Ten Proofs of Resurrection →وهذا أعم قسم وقع في القرآن فإنه يعم العلويات والسفليات والدنيا والآخرة وما يرى وما لا يرى
And this is the most comprehensive oath found in the Qur'an, as it includes the higher and lower realms, this world and the hereafter, and what is seen and what is not seen.
وَقَعَ — it found. Past-tense 'it occurred/is found', subject 'it' built in, describing the oath within a relative clause, 'an oath that occurred in the Quran'. Arabic often leaves the relative word out when the noun is indefinite, so the verb attaches directly.
From: Proof in All Creation →قال تقلب الكيس حتى يكون موضع التسرب من فوق، فلا يقع منه شيء
He said: Turn the bag so that the leaking spot is on top, and nothing will fall out of it.
يَقَعَ — will fall. A present-tense verb 'falls' in the subjunctive, the changed -a ending carried over from the purpose set up earlier; it marks the falling as the result being prevented, not a fact.
From: Heedless Choices →مثل ما روي عن أبي حمزة الصوفي أنه وقع في بئر فجاء رجلان فَطمّاها،
Like the story narrated about Abu Hamza al-Sufi, who fell into a well, and then two men came and filled it up.
وَقَعَ — fell. This past-tense verb has its 'he' subject built in and states the event, 'he fell'. It opens the narrated incident within the 'that' clause.
From: Trust in God →وأقل محنة الكبير أن تقع النواة في الكوز،
The smallest trial of the elder is for the kernel to fall into the jug.
تَقَعَ — to fall. This verb sits in its subjunctive shape, and the trigger is the 'that' particle right before it; the changed ending is what marks it as the subordinate event, not a plain 'it falls'. Its subject follows, and the verb-first order is normal for Arabic.
From: God's Promise of New Life →فوقعوا في حومة غفلة وفي ضيق شعر،
So they fell into the midst of heedlessness and into the narrowness of distress,
فَوَقَعُوا — so they fell. The fused front letter marks the 'so/then' consequence flowing from the previous lines. The rest is a past-tense verb carrying a masculine-plural 'they' subject, reporting their falling as the outcome of the contentment just described.
From: Rain and God's Decree →فكيف رأيت ماشيهم قد وقع ولم يثر،
So how did you see their livestock — it fell and did not rise,
وَقَعَ — fell. A past-tense verb with a built-in 'it' subject, reporting a completed fall. Reinforced by the emphasis particle before it, the masculine singular form agrees with the singular thing seen, presenting the fall as a finished fact.
From: Rain and God's Decree →وَمن وَقع فِي الشُّبُهَات وَقع فِي الْحَرَام
And whoever falls into the ambiguous matters falls into the unlawful.
وَقَعَ — he fell. Past-tense verb, 'he fell', with its 'he' subject built in. It is the condition verb of the 'whoever' clause, stating the act that triggers the result; the same verb form will be reused below as the answer.
From: Patience in Hard Times →وَمن وَقع فِي الشُّبُهَات وَقع فِي الْحَرَام
And whoever falls into the ambiguous matters falls into the unlawful.
وَقَعَ — he fell. The very same 'he fell' verb repeated, now as the result-half of the condition. Arabic answers a 'whoever' clause with a matching verb rather than a word like 'then'; the repetition is structural, pairing trigger and outcome.
From: Patience in Hard Times →فَإِذَا رَأَيْتُ رَبِّيَ وَقَعْتُ لَهُ سَاجِدًا
So when I see my Lord, I fall down prostrate before Him.
وَقَعْتُ — I fell. Opens with the linking wa- and continues with a finished-action verb carrying -tu ('I') as its built-in subject, 'I fell'. This is the main clause that the preceding 'when I saw' sets off: once the condition is met, this is the result. The connective ties the two halves of the 'when/then' together.
From: Intercession on Judgment Day →وَقَعَ لِي مِنْهُ نَحْوَ مِئَةٍ وَخَمْسِينَ مُجَلَّدًا
I obtained about one hundred and fifty volumes from it.
وَقَعَ — and came into possession. A past-tense verb with its 'it/he' subject built in, used in an idiom of acquisition: a thing 'fell to' someone, meaning they came to possess it. The completed-past form reports a one-time getting. It needs the 'to me' phrase next to name the recipient.
From: A Life of Reading and Writing →وَأَشَدُّ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنْ يَقَعَ السُرُورَ بِمَا هُوَ عُقُوبَةٌ،
Even more severe than that is taking pleasure in what is a punishment.
يَقَعَ — to fall. A present-tense verb of falling/occurring, now in its subjunctive form because the particle before it demanded that shift. It means 'that there occur', setting up the pleasure as the thing that happens. So it heads the packaged clause naming the worse case.
From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →فَوَقَعَ بَيْنَ يَدَيِ سُلَيْمَانِ
So it fell before Sulayman.
فَوَقَعَ — so it fell. A 'so/then' is fused to a past-tense verb whose 'it' subject is built in, pointing back to the thrown stick. The 'then' marks this falling as the immediate result of the throw. The single word thus carries both the consequence-marker and the verb with its built-in subject.
From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →
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