يَدْرِكَنِيovertake me

Example sentences

• وَكُنْتُ أَسْأَلُهُ عَنْ الشَّرِّ مَخَافَةَ أَنْ يَدْرِكَنِي

  And I used to ask him about evil, for fear that it might overtake me.

  يَدْرِكَنِي — overtake me. A present-tense verb pushed into the subjunctive by the particle before it and carrying an attached 'me' object on its end. The changed ending marks the overtaking as a feared possibility, and the suffix names who would be overtaken.

  From: Finding the Prophet's Way →