يَرْكَبَride on

Example sentences

• فَيَسْتَجِرُّهُمْ حَتَّى يَرْكَبَ رَقَبَاتِهِمْ

  So he drags them along until he rides on their necks.

  يَرْكَبَ — he rides on. This is a present-tense verb pushed into the subjunctive by the preceding 'until', which is why its ending differs from the plain present. The subjunctive marks the riding as the point being driven toward, not a standing fact. Its subject 'he' is carried inside the verb.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →