دُثِرَتْwere concealed

Example sentences

• وَدُثِرَتْ مَعَاهِدُهُ عِنْدَهُمْ فَلَيْسُوا يَعْمُرُونَهَا،

  And his sanctuaries were concealed from them, so they do not inhabit them.

  وَدُثِرَتْ — and were concealed. Here a connecting 'wa-' is fused to a passive past verb: the sanctuaries receive the action, they were blotted out, rather than doing it. Arabic marks the passive by reshaping the verb's inner vowels instead of adding 'were', and the feminine '-at' ending agrees with the plural-of-things subject that follows.

  From: Ignoring God's Guidance →