LessonsAl-Mafʿūl Maʿahu: Accompaniment and CoordinationQuiz

مَا لَكَ وَزَيْدًا؟
Translation: What business do you have with Zayd?

مَا: interrogative pronoun, topic in nominative position.
لَكَ: preposition lām plus second-person pronoun; prepositional predicate.
وَ: wāw of accompaniment.
زَيْدًا: accusative mafʿūl maʿahu related to the understood verbal sense.

Contrast the genitive coordinated ʿAmr in the previous example with the accusative accompaniment Zayd here.

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Parsing Mā Laka wa-Zaydan

Al-Mafʿūl Maʿahu: Accompaniment and Coordination

مَا لَكَ وَزَيْدًا؟
Translation: What business do you have with Zayd?

مَا: interrogative pronoun, topic in nominative position.
لَكَ: preposition lām plus second-person pronoun; prepositional predicate.
وَ: wāw of accompaniment.
زَيْدًا: accusative mafʿūl maʿahu related to the understood verbal sense.

Contrast the genitive coordinated ʿAmr in the previous example with the accusative accompaniment Zayd here.