يَكُونُواthey be

Example sentences

• وَيَجِبُ أَنْ يَكُونُوا عَلَى مَعْرِفَةٍ بِهِ،

  And they must be knowledgeable about it.

  يَكُونُوا — they be. A 'to be' verb whose ending -u marks a third-person 'they', pushed into its subjunctive shape by the 'that' before it — which is why the usual final -na drops to a bare 'they' form. The mood marks the required state, governed by 'must'. It carries the plural subject inside it.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →