يَرْفَعُونَهَاthey raise them

Example sentences

• وَوَقَعَتْ أَلْوِيِتُهُ وَأَعْلَامُهُ مِنْ أَيْدِيهِمْ فَلَيْسُوا يَرْفَعُونَهَا،

  And his banners and standards fell from their hands, so they do not raise them.

  يَرْفَعُونَهَا — they raise them. A present-tense verb whose built-in -una ending already says 'they', so the subject is inside the verb. The -ha glued on the end is the object 'them/it', pointing back to the banners. One Arabic word thus packs subject, verb and object together where English needs three.

  From: Ignoring God's Guidance →