تَرَsee

Example sentences

• أَلَمْ تَرَ مَا قَالَ لِي سَعْدٌ

  Have you not seen what Sa'd said to me?

  تَرَ — see. A present verb of seeing with 'you' inside, here in the clipped (jussive) ending forced by the 'did not' before it. That shortened ending is how Arabic carries the negated-past sense 'you have not seen'.

  From: Warning Before the Battle of Badr →

• وَلَمْ تَرَ فِي الْبَاقِينَ مَا يَصْنَعُ الدَّهْرُ

  And you did not see in those who remain what time will do.

  تَرَ — see. A present-shaped verb of seeing, clipped into the short form the preceding negator forces, with its meaning pushed into the past to give 'did not see'. Its 'you' subject is built in. So although present in shape, it reports a past failure to perceive.

  From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →