وَمِنْهَا: «عَوْضُ» لِلْمُسْتَقْبَلِ الْمَنْفِيِّ، نَحْوُ: «لَا أَضْرِبُهُ عَوْضُ».
Translation: ʿAwaḍ is used for a negated future: “I shall never strike him.”
The source assigns ʿawaḍ to negative future statements. Distinguish it from qaṭṭ by temporal reference, not just by translating both as “never.”
Book example: لَا أَضْرِبُهُ عَوْضُ.
I shall never strike him.
Lā: negator; aḍribu: indicative imperfect with implicit “I”; -hu: object; ʿawaḍu: indeclinable time adverb in adverbial position.
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Indeclinable Adverbs — Ghāyāt, Time and Place
وَمِنْهَا: «عَوْضُ» لِلْمُسْتَقْبَلِ الْمَنْفِيِّ، نَحْوُ: «لَا أَضْرِبُهُ عَوْضُ».
Translation: ʿAwaḍ is used for a negated future: “I shall never strike him.”
The source assigns ʿawaḍ to negative future statements. Distinguish it from qaṭṭ by temporal reference, not just by translating both as “never.”
Book example: لَا أَضْرِبُهُ عَوْضُ.
I shall never strike him.
Lā: negator; aḍribu: indicative imperfect with implicit “I”; -hu: object; ʿawaḍu: indeclinable time adverb in adverbial position.