LessonsAl-Marfūʿāt: The Fāʿil, Its Definition and Full ParsingQuiz

Observe three visible markers in the lesson’s examples:

زَيْدٌ: nominative with ḍamma.
أَبُوهُ: nominative with wāw because it is one of the six special nouns.
عَمْرًا: accusative with fatḥa.

Link the marker to the syntactic role: Zayd can be nominative as fāʿil or mubtadaʾ; Abūhu is the fāʿil here and follows the rule of the six nouns; ʿAmran is accusative as the direct object.

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Case Markers: Ḍamma, Wāw, and Fatḥa

Al-Marfūʿāt: The Fāʿil, Its Definition and Full Parsing

Observe three visible markers in the lesson’s examples:

زَيْدٌ: nominative with ḍamma.
أَبُوهُ: nominative with wāw because it is one of the six special nouns.
عَمْرًا: accusative with fatḥa.

Link the marker to the syntactic role: Zayd can be nominative as fāʿil or mubtadaʾ; Abūhu is the fāʿil here and follows the rule of the six nouns; ʿAmran is accusative as the direct object.