تُحِبُّto love

Example sentences

• تُحِبُّهُمْ بِقَاعِ الْأَرْضِ،

  The corners of the earth love them.

  تُحِبُّهُمْ — love them. A present-tense verb that puts its subject AFTER it, in the normal Arabic order, so the doer (the corners of the earth) is supplied by the following words, and the -hum ('them') latched on its end is its object. The grammar inverts English here: the thing loved is inside the verb, while the lovers arrive next.

  From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →

• قال ما تركت من سبيل تحب أن ينفق فيها إلا أنفقت فيها لك، قال كذبت،

  He said, "I have not left any cause you would want money to be spent on without my having spent in it for you." He said, "You lied."

  تُحِبُّ — you would like. A present-tense verb 'love/want' with a built-in 'you' (masculine singular) as subject, addressing the listener directly. With no relative word spelled out, it begins a clause describing the preceding indefinite 'channel' - 'a channel [that] you would want...'. Arabic attaches such describing clauses to an indefinite noun bare, with no 'that/which'.

  From: Intentions on Judgment Day →