Inna and Its Sisters: Six Particles, Meanings, Government and Exceptions
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- How many inna-like particles are listed?
- What case government do these particles normally have?
- Which expresses a wish?
- Which expresses a correction or contrast?
- Which introduces a simile?
- Identify inna’s subject.
- What is qāʾimun?
- What is the central grammatical contrast?
- What marks the dual subject accusative?
- How is the dual predicate nominative?
- What case position does -hu occupy?
- Which expression supplies the predicate?
- What is the case/mood of yaktubu?
- How is al-asadu parsed?
- What is the case of Bakr?
- What is ʿindanā doing?
- What is yanjaḥu?
- Which particle commonly expresses hope?
- What is the effect of mā kāffa in innamā?
- What is Zaydun after innamā qāma?
- What is Zaydun in innamā Zaydun ʿālimun?
- Which form has the key classical exception to blocking mā?
- Which form introduces an independent initial clause?
- Why is inna used after qāla?
- Where is emphatic lām attached?
- What does the anna-clause function as?
- What role does the anna-clause have after ʿalimtu?
- What does min govern in this example?
- Which pair receives anna in the source?
- How many core anna contexts are listed?
- How many principal kasra contexts are listed in the primary passage?
- Why is ʿAmran accusative?
- Why may ʿAmrun be nominative?
- How may in be analysed here?
- Why is the distinguishing lām significant?
- What construction is exemplified by an qad?
- Why is aktuba subjunctive?
- Why is Zayd nominative after lightened kaʾan?
- What is ʿAmrun after lightened lakin?
- What is the normal analysis of qāʾimun after layta?
- How is this unusual layta pattern treated?
- What is the genitive Zaydin after laʿalla?
- Which sentence retains an indicative predicate verb?
- What nominative ending does yashfā have?
- What marks the masculine-plural subject accusative?
- Which comparison reflects correct case government?
- What principally distinguishes choosing inna versus anna?
- What chapter comes immediately next?
- The six particles normally assign accusative subject and nominative predicate.
- Inna and kāna assign identical cases.
- Al-ṭālibayni is accusative in this sentence.
- An indeclinable pronoun cannot be inna’s subject.
- Kaʾanna fundamentally expresses comparison.
- Every present verb after laʿalla becomes subjunctive.
- Zayd is the nominative subject of qāma after innamā.
- Laytamā never retains case government.
- Inna has kasra at the start of an independent clause.
- Zaydan itself directly functions as subject of balagha.
- The anna clause may occupy a genitive slot after a preposition.
- The source names only four anna categories.
- Emphatic lām may attach to inna’s predicate.
- Lightened lakin normally keeps governing the subject.
- An is subjunctive in urīdu an aktuba.
- An qad qāma and an aktuba must contain identical kinds of an.
- Genitive after laʿalla is the standard rule.
- The commentary mentions competing analyses of kaʾanna’s formation.
- Layta Zaydan qāʾiman is universally the required standard.
- ʿAmrun can be nominative by positional coordination after the predicate.