شَرَكtrap

Example sentences

• وكلما نصب إبليس لي شركًا خرقت ذلك الشرك،

  Every time Satan set a trap for me, I destroyed that trap.

  شَرَكًا — a trap. This is the object of the verb 'set', and its -an ending marks it as an indefinite object, 'a trap'. That ending is Arabic's regular way of tagging the thing an action falls upon when it is not made definite by 'the'.

  From: Victory Belongs to God →

• وكلما نصب إبليس لي شركًا خرقت ذلك الشرك،

  Every time Satan set a trap for me, I destroyed that trap.

  الشَّرَكَ — the trap. The al- makes this definite, 'the trap', pinning it to the one already set. As the object of the verb 'I destroyed', paired with the pointing word before it, it carries the -a object ending.

  From: Victory Belongs to God →