خَطَفَsnatch

Example sentences

• إِنْ رَأَيْتُمُونَا تَخْطَفُنَا الطَّيْرُ،

  If you see the birds snatching us,

  تَخْطَفُنَا — snatch us. A present-shape verb running as a description of how the birds act on 'us', with the '-na' tail attaching 'us' as the snatched ones. It paints the simultaneous scene the seeing would catch, a circumstantial 'snatching us'.

  From: A Companion at Battle →