LessonsAl-Mafʿūl Maʿahu: Accompaniment and CoordinationQuiz

مَا شَأْنُكَ وَعَمْرًا؟
Translation: What is your concern with Amr?

مَا: interrogative topic in nominative position.
شَأْنُكَ: nominative predicate; shaʾnu is a first term of iḍāfa and -ka the genitive possessive pronoun.
وَ: wāw of accompaniment.
عَمْرًا: accusative accompaniment complement.

Shaʾn is a noun, not a verb. The “verb in meaning” refers to the sense conveyed by the whole construction.

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Parsing Mā Shaʾnuka wa-ʿAmran

Al-Mafʿūl Maʿahu: Accompaniment and Coordination

مَا شَأْنُكَ وَعَمْرًا؟
Translation: What is your concern with Amr?

مَا: interrogative topic in nominative position.
شَأْنُكَ: nominative predicate; shaʾnu is a first term of iḍāfa and -ka the genitive possessive pronoun.
وَ: wāw of accompaniment.
عَمْرًا: accusative accompaniment complement.

Shaʾn is a noun, not a verb. The “verb in meaning” refers to the sense conveyed by the whole construction.