LessonsIndeclinable Adverbs — Ghāyāt, Time and PlaceQuiz

وَالْمُخْتَارُ الْفِعْلِيَّةُ، نَحْوُ: «آتِيكَ إِذَا طَلَعَتِ الشَّمْسُ».
Translation: The verbal clause is preferred, e.g. “I will come to you when the sun rises.”

Compare the previous nominal clause with the preferred verbal one. The temporal meaning is similar, but the internal syntactic structure differs.

Book example: آتِيكَ إِذَا طَلَعَتِ الشَّمْسُ.
I shall come to you when the sun rises.
Ātī: imperfect with implicit “I”; -ka: object; idhā: time adverb; ṭalaʿat: perfect with feminine marker; al-shamsu: nominative subject.

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Preferred verbal clause after idhā

Indeclinable Adverbs — Ghāyāt, Time and Place

وَالْمُخْتَارُ الْفِعْلِيَّةُ، نَحْوُ: «آتِيكَ إِذَا طَلَعَتِ الشَّمْسُ».
Translation: The verbal clause is preferred, e.g. “I will come to you when the sun rises.”

Compare the previous nominal clause with the preferred verbal one. The temporal meaning is similar, but the internal syntactic structure differs.

Book example: آتِيكَ إِذَا طَلَعَتِ الشَّمْسُ.
I shall come to you when the sun rises.
Ātī: imperfect with implicit “I”; -ka: object; idhā: time adverb; ṭalaʿat: perfect with feminine marker; al-shamsu: nominative subject.