صَخْرَةٌrock

Example sentences

• فَإِنْحَدَرَتْ صَخْرَةٌ مِّنَ الْجَبَلِ

  Then a rock slid down from the mountain.

  صَخْرَةٌ — a rock. A feminine singular noun standing as the subject of the verb before it; its feminine shape is why the verb took a feminine ending. With no 'the', it presents the rock as one unspecified object newly entering the scene.

  From: Trapped and Delivered →

• فَانْفَرَجَتْ الصَّخْرَةُ غَيْرُ أَنَّهُمْ لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ الْخُرُوجَ مِنْهَا

  The rock split open, but they could not get out of it.

  الصَّخْرَةُ — the rock. A definite noun with 'the' and a nominative ending that marks it as the doer of the splitting. Its feminine gender is why the verb before it took a feminine ending; Arabic ties subject and verb together by matching gender across them.

  From: Trapped and Delivered →

• فَرُفِعَتْ لَنَا صَخْرَةٌ طَوْيِلَةٌ،

  Then a long rock was raised for us.

  صَخْرَةٌ — a rock. An indefinite feminine noun, the rock, standing as what the passive verb acts upon, so it takes the subject ending of a passive; its trailing '-un' marks it indefinite. The '-a' built into the word signals feminine gender, which the following adjective must match. It is the thing raised up.

  From: A Night with the Prophet →