يُرِيدُونَthey want

Example sentences

• فَيَقُولُ يَا أُمَّهُ أَنَا أَعْلَمُ مَا يُرِيدُونَ،

  Then he says, "O my mother, I know what they want,"

  يُرِيدُونَ — they want. A present-tense verb, 'they want', whose -una ending marks a third-person masculine plural subject, 'they', all inside the verb with no separate pronoun. That plural ending is the only thing telling you the wanters are several people. It completes the relative clause begun by 'what', supplying the action that defines what is known.

  From: Mothers and the Companions →