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ضَرَبْتُ الْيَوْمَ وَزَيْدٌ
Translation: Zayd and I struck (someone) today.
Ḍarabtu: past verb with the attached subject -tu.
Al-yawma: accusative time adverb; the intervening separator.
Wāw: coordinating particle.
Zaydun: nominative noun coordinated with the subject pronoun.

With no separator, the source requires anā as reinforcement for this construction.

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Coordination (ʿAṭf bi-l-Ḥurūf): Rules and Parsing

ضَرَبْتُ الْيَوْمَ وَزَيْدٌ
Translation: Zayd and I struck (someone) today.
Ḍarabtu: past verb with the attached subject -tu.
Al-yawma: accusative time adverb; the intervening separator.
Wāw: coordinating particle.
Zaydun: nominative noun coordinated with the subject pronoun.

With no separator, the source requires anā as reinforcement for this construction.