نُطْعِمَwe feed

Example sentences

• وَقَالُوا ﴿أَنْ نُطْعِمَ مَن لَوْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ لَأَطْعَمَهُ﴾

  And they said, "Should we feed one whom, if God had willed, He would have fed?"

  نُطْعِمَ — we feed. This verb wears the subjunctive ending demanded by the particle before it and carries a 'we' subject inside, 'we feed'. The altered ending marks the feeding as the contemplated act in question, not an asserted event, inside the rhetorical 'should we'.

  From: Patience Under Decree →