أَكْرِمْنِي أُكْرِمْكَ
Honor me, and I shall honor you.
Akrimnī directs the addressee to honor the speaker, while ukrimka gives a jussive response. The sense is “if you honor me, I shall honor you.”
The consequence depends on performing the requested act. The first clause remains grammatically an imperative; the conditional formulation is an explanatory reconstruction rather than a literal replacement in the spoken sentence.
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Prohibition: Refraining, Rhetorical Functions and Responses to Requests
أَكْرِمْنِي أُكْرِمْكَ
Honor me, and I shall honor you.
Akrimnī directs the addressee to honor the speaker, while ukrimka gives a jussive response. The sense is “if you honor me, I shall honor you.”
The consequence depends on performing the requested act. The first clause remains grammatically an imperative; the conditional formulation is an explanatory reconstruction rather than a literal replacement in the spoken sentence.