Al-Mafʿūl Lahu: Expressing the Reason for an Action
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- What does mafʿūl lahu explain?
- What does “mā li-ajlihi” mean in the definition?
- How does the author explain its accusative relation?
- Parse taʾdīban in ḍarabtuhu taʾdīban.
- What is the case-position of -hu in ḍarabtuhu?
- What is -tu in ḍarabtuhu?
- What marks taʾdīban as accusative?
- Why is at-taʾdībi genitive?
- Which is the second original source example?
- What does jubnan indicate in the source sentence?
- What construction is ʿani l-ḥarbi?
- What is the case of al-ḥarbi?
- What case does jubnan have?
- Which concept is the purpose in the first example?
- What is the stated cause in the second source example?
- What is introduced by “wa-ʿinda al-Zajjāj”?
- Which is al-Zajjāj’s first reconstruction?
- Which is al-Zajjāj’s second reconstruction?
- In addabtuhu taʾdīban, how is the cognate verbal noun parsed?
- What is jubnan in jabuntu jubnan?
- Which sentence is an added teaching example?
- Parse ṭalaban in jiʾtu ṭalaban li-l-ʿilmi.
- Why is al-ʿilmi genitive in the example?
- What does iḥtirāman explain in the added sentence?
- What is al-bāba in aghlaqtu l-bāba khawfan?
- What is khawfan in the same example?
- What is ṣabāḥan in sāfartu ṣabāḥan?
- Case of ṭalabi in jiʾtu li-ṭalabi l-ʿilmi?
- How is al-ʿilmi parsed in li-ṭalabi l-ʿilmi?
- What does being a verbal noun NOT by itself determine?
- If an expression answers “when?” rather than “why?”, what is it likely to be?
- Which statement correctly distinguishes source examples from al-Zajjāj’s reconstruction?
- Mafʿūl lahu expresses why an act happens.
- The suffix -hu is the subject in ḍarabtuhu taʾdīban.
- Al-ḥarbi is genitive after ʿan in the source example.
- Because taʾdīban is a verbal noun, it must always be an absolute object.
- At-taʾdībi is genitive with overt lām.
- Addabtuhu taʾdīban is an al-Zajjāj reconstruction in the source.
- Ṣabāḥan is mafʿūl lahu in sāfartu ṣabāḥan.
- Ṭalabi is genitive after lām in jiʾtu li-ṭalabi l-ʿilmi.