نَرَىsee

Example sentences

• أَدْرَكْتُمْهُ وَلَمْ نَدْرِكْهُ وَرَأَيْتُمْهُ وَلَمْ نَرَهُ

  You met him, but we did not; you saw him, but we did not.

  نَرَهُ — we see him. A present-form verb with the 'we' subject in its prefix and the object pronoun '-hu' (him), pushed into its clipped shape by 'lam': 'we did not see him'. The particle plus clipping yields the past-negative, no past-tense form needed. It closes the parallel contrast.

  From: A Spy in the Enemy Camp →