جَرَّبَtry

Example sentences

• ومن لم يصدقني يجرب،

  And whoever does not believe me, let him try.

  يُجَرِّبْ — let him try. This is the answer of the condition, a present-form verb cut to the jussive precisely because it is the conditional result, giving the sense 'then let him test'. Arabic marks the consequence of a condition by this jussive ending, which here lands as a mild command to go try.

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