دُرِكَwas overtaken in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَدُرِكَ الشَّقَاءُ وَسُوءُ الْقَضَاءِ وَشَمَاتَةُ الْأَعْدَاءِ

  And being overtaken by misery, an adverse decree, and the gloating of enemies.

  وَدُرِكَ — and was overtaken. The wa- on the front coordinates this clause with the surrounding list, and the verb is in its passive shape: the subject is overtaken, acted upon, rather than acting. Arabic marks the passive by changing the verb's inner vowels, not by adding a 'was', so the form alone signals 'was overtaken'.

  From: Three States of the Heart →