Arabic vocabulary
يَعْتَرِي is how you say “to befall” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
وينسى ما يلحقه من الأمراض والأسقام، وما يعتريه من الكبر والهرم،
And forgets what afflicts him of diseases and ailments, and what befalls him of old age and senility,
يَعْتَرِيهِ — befalls him. A present-tense verb with an attached 'him' as its object, inside this clause: what overtakes him. The subject is inside the verb; the suffix marks him as the one it comes upon.
From: A Path to Mercy →أخيال يعتري المبتدع أو جنون أو مس،
Is it an illusion that afflicts the innovator, or madness or possession?
يَعْتَرِي — it afflicts. A present-tense verb with its subject, 'illusion', understood from the question, and the implied object 'the innovator' following. The present form casts the afflicting as a recurring possibility being weighed.
From: God's Attributes →OpenArabic teaches words like يَعْتَرِي through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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