Defective Verbs: Kāna and Its Sisters
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- What is Zaydun in kāna Zaydun qāʾiman?
- What is qāʾiman in the same sentence?
- Are both nouns nominative in Zaydun qāʾimun?
- What chiefly differs between ẓanantu and kāna examples?
- Why is defective kāna called incomplete?
- What does kāna mean in kāna al-qitālu?
- How is al-qitālu parsed in complete kāna?
- Which type is kāna al-qitālu shadīdan?
- Why avoid freely adding expletive kāna?
- How should the “became” sense of kāna be understood?
- What is central to ṣāra al-jawwu bāridan?
- Why is ghaniyyan accusative after ṣāra?
- Which word provides the morning sense?
- What time does amsā usually associate with?
- Which time is associated with aḍḥā?
- How is aṣbaḥa Zaydun ghaniyyan interpreted?
- What is Zaydun in complete aṣbaḥa Zaydun?
- Ẓalla Zaydun kātiban chiefly suggests which time?
- Bāta Zaydun nāʾiman refers to which period?
- What does mā zāla Zaydun mujtahidan mean?
- What is mujtahidan after mā zāla?
- Which is among the four continuation verbs?
- Why is negation important with the continuation forms?
- How is yazālu classified in lā yazālu?
- What is expressed by mā dāma?
- What is the main action in ajlisu mā dāma...?
- How is mā analyzed in mā dāma?
- Key distinction between mā zāla and mā dāma?
- What is laysa Zaydun qāʾiman?
- What is qāʾiman after laysa?
- How does the source characterize the time of laysa?
- Contrast laysa and mā zāla with the same predicate.
- Where is the predicate in kāna Zaydun fī al-bayti?
- What is the verbal clause yaktubu after kāna?
- What is qāʾiman in kāna qāʾiman Zaydun?
- Why is ḥāḍiratan feminine?
- What marks the accusative on dual ḥāḍirayn?
- Why is al-ṭālibāni nominative?
- How does ṣāra differ from ẓanantu in case?
- Most reliable parsing rule for this chapter?
- Defective verbs normally have a nominative ism and accusative khabar.
- Zaydun is first accusative object of defective kāna.
- Kāna can be complete as well as defective.
- Al-qitālu is the accusative predicate in complete kāna.
- Additional kāna can be freely inserted into all ordinary prose.
- Ṣāra Zaydun ghaniyyan denotes change into wealth.
- Aṣbaḥa always and only means a morning state.
- Amsā is associated with evening in its core sense.
- Both ẓalla and bāta chiefly refer to nighttime.
- Mā zāla expresses persistence despite the negative particle.
- Mā fatiʾa belongs to the set of four continuation verbs.
- The continuation forms may exceptionally have understood negation.
- Mā has identical function in mā dāma and mā zāla.
- Mā dāma can set the duration of another action.
- Laysa makes its ism accusative and khabar nominative.
- All grammarians restrict laysa to present time with no disagreement.
- Kāna may have a prepositional predicate.
- Fronting qāʾiman makes it nominative.
- The khabar is feminine and accusative in kānat al-muʿallimatu ḥāḍiratan.
- An accusative ending does not automatically identify a direct object.