تَخْتِمَyou finish

Example sentences

• اللَّهُ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ الْحَيُّ الْقَيُّومُ حَتَّى تَخْتِمَ الْآيَةَ،

  Allah—there is no deity except Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer—until you finish the verse,

  تَخْتِمَ — you finish. A present-tense verb shifted into its subjunctive shape, its ending changed by the 'until' before it; its 'you' subject sits in the prefix. After 'until', Arabic swaps the plain present for this form to mark the finishing as the aim worked toward.

  From: The Verse of the Throne →

• فَإِقْرَأْ آيَةَ الْكُرْسِيِّ مِنْ أَوَّلِهَا حَتَّى تَخْتِمَ

  So recite the Verse of the Throne from its beginning until you finish.

  تَخْتِمَ — you finish. A verb with the 'you' subject built in, sitting in the goal-form because the 'until' word in front demands it. That altered ending is how a listener knows the finishing is the target of the recitation rather than a present fact, the particle steering the mood.

  From: The Verse of the Throne →