Tamannī and Tarajjī: Definition, Particles, Rhetorical Uses and the Answer to a Wish
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- Which definition best captures technical tamannī?
- What is essential about the object of a wish?
- Which two cases account for lack of expectation?
- Why does the poet’s wish for youth count as tamannī?
- Which is the actual wish particle in alā layta al-shabāb?
- For a distressed person, what kind of wish is “If only I had a thousand dinars”?
- What is the grammatical position of alfa in layta lī alfa dīnār?
- Tarajjī concerns which situation?
- Which are the familiar expressions of tarajjī?
- What governs yanjaḥa in ʿasā an yanjaḥa al-ṭālib?
- What is the case/mood of yuhdithu after laʿalla Allāha?
- Which surah contains “laʿalla Allāha yuḥdithu baʿda dhālika amrā”?
- What is the primary particle of tamannī?
- Which list gives the three non-primary wish particles?
- What is the rhetorical force of hal in the passage about intercessors?
- Which reference contains “fa-hal lanā min shufaʿāʾ”?
- What is law expressing in “fa-law anna lanā karra”?
- Where does “fa-law anna lanā karra fa-nakūna” occur?
- Why is laʿallī ... aṭīru in the sandgrouse poem a wish?
- What justifies reading laʿalla as tamannī?
- Why is the imperfect often subjunctive after causal fāʾ in a wish’s answer?
- What marks the subjunctive mood in fa-yashfaʿū?
- How is the subjunctive marked in fa-nakūna?
- Why is yaʿūdu not subjunctive in layta al-shabāba yaʿūdu?
- Every wish of tamannī must concern something logically impossible.
- ʿAsā and laʿalla ordinarily express hope.
- Hal expresses tamannī in every occurrence.
- Law may convey a wish in addition to its primary conditional use.
- Fa-yashfaʿū is subjunctive by loss of nūn because it is one of the five imperfect forms.
- The verb aṭīru after laʿallī must be subjunctive.