LessonsDiptote Causes — Foreign Origin and Its ConditionsQuiz

جَاءَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ — Ibrāhīm came.
جَاءَ: past-tense verb, built on fatḥa.
إِبْرَاهِيمُ: subject (fāʿil), nominative, marked by a visible ḍamma without tanwīn because it is a diptote.

Its function determines the nominative case; its declension class determines the visible ending.

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Ibrāhīm in the Nominative — Full Parsing

Diptote Causes — Foreign Origin and Its Conditions

جَاءَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ — Ibrāhīm came.
جَاءَ: past-tense verb, built on fatḥa.
إِبْرَاهِيمُ: subject (fāʿil), nominative, marked by a visible ḍamma without tanwīn because it is a diptote.

Its function determines the nominative case; its declension class determines the visible ending.