تَسْكُنُsubsides

Example sentences

• وَكُنْتُ أَجِدُ مَعَ ذَلِكَ حَرَارَةً فِي صَدْرِي لَا تَكَادُ تَسْكُنُ

  And I used to feel a burning in my chest that scarcely subsided.

  تَسْكُنُ — it subsides. A present-tense verb, 'it subsides / grows calm', with its subject (the burning) carried inside. It is the verb governed by the 'almost' verb before it, supplying the action that nearly happened. Together with the negator and the 'almost' verb, it lands on 'hardly ever calmed down'.

  From: Mothers and the Companions →