Arabic Syntax Practicum — Parsing Passages from Ten Maqāmāt

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• What is the grammatical function of khāwiya al-wifāḍ?
• How does ajūbu function after ṭafiqtu?
• What is khāfiyatun in wa-mā takhfā khāfiyah?
• What voice do mīṭat and nīṭat have?
• What does the lām in li-aʿlaqa express?
• What does ilā an jadahat indicate?
• What is samalun in ʿalayhi samalun?
• Why does fa- appear before huwa laka ḥatman?
• What is the grammatical role of idhā here?
• What does illā accomplish in this clause?
• What is man in man yuḥfaẓu ʿanhu?
• What is kallan in tattakhidhūnī kallan?
• Why is uklatin genitive after rubba?
• What grammatical role does ghabīnun have here?
• What does min convey after aḥabbu ilayya?
• How does qad kutibna relate to riqāʿan?
• What does an do to yaḥdhuwa?
• Why is fa- used in ammā al-shaykhu fa-aṣdaqu?
• Why is lām used in li-arfuwa aṭmāran?
• What does this negative-exceptive structure convey?
• What is the antecedent of allatī?
• What degree of certainty does innī la-ukhālu express?
• What does sahwan wa-lā ʿamdan negate?
• Why is yakun jussive after fa-lā?
• Why is tastariḥ jussive after wa-ghḍuḍ?
• An accusative ḥāl after a verb is not automatically its direct object.
• The fāʾ in fa-huwa laka ḥatman links a nominal conditional consequence.
• The fa- after ammā al-shaykhu is superfluous and grammatically unnecessary.
• Emphasis in innī la-ukhālu removes the uncertainty expressed by ukhalu.
• A present verb functioning as the consequence of an imperative can be jussive.