LessonsAl-Mafʿūl Bih: Definition, Fronting and OmissionQuiz

الْكِتَابَ قَرَأْتُهُ
Translation: The book—I read it.
الْكِتَابَ: accusative, governed by an understood preceding “qaraʾtu”.
قَرَأْتُ: past verb with first-person subject.
هُ: accusative pronoun referring to the book.

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Al-Mafʿūl Bih: Definition, Fronting and Omission

الْكِتَابَ قَرَأْتُهُ
Translation: The book—I read it.
الْكِتَابَ: accusative, governed by an understood preceding “qaraʾtu”.
قَرَأْتُ: past verb with first-person subject.
هُ: accusative pronoun referring to the book.

Supplemental teaching example; not a direct quotation from the book.