يَنْتَهُونَthey defer in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَكَانَ النَّاسُ يَجْتَمِعُونَ إِلَيْهِ وَيَنْتَهُونَ إِلَى رَأْيِهِ

  And people would gather around him and defer to his opinion.

  وَيَنْتَهُونَ — and they defer. A coordinating wa- on a present-tense verb, adding a second habitual action to the first. The plural 'they' is inside the verb, and the wa- simply links deferring to gathering.

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