رَأَيْتُ أَخَاكَ خَالِدًا.
“I saw your brother, Khālid.”
رَأَيْتُ: past verb with first-person subject suffix.
أَخَاكَ: accusative direct object with alif; muḍāf, with possessive kāf.
خَالِدًا: accusative explanatory apposition with fatḥah.
The apposition is accusative because the antecedent is accusative, not because all explanatory followers must be so.
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ʿAṭf al-Bayān: Definition, Examples, and Contrast with Badal
رَأَيْتُ أَخَاكَ خَالِدًا.
“I saw your brother, Khālid.”
رَأَيْتُ: past verb with first-person subject suffix.
أَخَاكَ: accusative direct object with alif; muḍāf, with possessive kāf.
خَالِدًا: accusative explanatory apposition with fatḥah.
The apposition is accusative because the antecedent is accusative, not because all explanatory followers must be so.