أَرَهُsee it

Example sentences

• وَإِذَا رَأَيْتُ كِتَابًا لَمْ أَرَهُ فَكَأَنِّي وَقَعْتُ عَلَى كَنْزٍ،

  When I saw a book I had not seen before, it was as if I had stumbled upon a treasure.

  أَرَهُ — see it. The verb governed by the preceding negator, with -hu ('it') attached as its object pointing back to the book. Because of that negator the verb takes its clipped jussive ending and reads as past, 'had not seen it'. The shortened ending is the visible mark that the negator is controlling this verb.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →