Arabic vocabulary

تَسْكُنُsubsides in Arabic

تَسْكُنُ is how you say “subsides” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

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 →

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