Diptote Causes — Additional Alif and Nūn and Their Conditions

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• When do additional alif and nūn cause diptote status in a noun?
• Why is ʿImrān a diptote in the book?
• Why does the book call saʿdān fully declinable?
• What is the case of ʿImrān in جَاءَ عِمْرَانُ?
• What is ʿImrān in رَأَيْتُ عِمْرَانَ?
• Why does ʿImrān have fatḥa after bi-?
• What does the ending -un in سَعْدَانٌ show?
• What marks saʿdān after ilā?
• What is the adjective condition tied to?
• What is the feminine of sakrān?
• How is sakrān classified?
• Parse sakrān in جَاءَ رَجُلٌ سَكْرَانُ.
• How should sakrān be parsed in the genitive example?
• In which sense does the source first call nadmān fully declinable?
• What is the feminine of nadmān meaning companion?
• What feminine does the note give for regretful nadmān?
• Why can the ruling for nadmān differ by sense?
• What is the genitive sign for companion-sense nadmān?
• What is the genitive sign for regretful-sense nadmān?
• Which statement about بِعِمْرَانَ is correct?
• What does the fatḥa mark in رَأَيْتُ عُثْمَانَ?
• What does the fatḥa mark in مَرَرْتُ بِعُثْمَانَ?
• Which pair are both diptotes?
• Which is fully declinable in the book’s stated usage?
• If an adjective forms its feminine on faʿlāna, what follows?
• If proper-name status is absent, what does the noun rule lack?
• Why is ʿaṭshān → ʿaṭshā a useful extra example?
• In the source, saʿdān used for a plant is fully declinable.
• Every word ending in -ān is necessarily a diptote.
• ʿUthmān has nominative tanwīn in جَاءَ عُثْمَانُ.
• In مَرَرْتُ بِرَجُلٍ سَكْرَانَ, sakrān is genitive yet takes fatḥa.
• The marginal note gives nadmāna as the feminine of regretful nadmān.
• Both fully declinable and diptote words can be genitive.
• The book applies the noun and proper-name condition to ʿImrān.
• Nadmān has one unchanging declension regardless of meaning.