What two changes distinguish لَمْ يَكْتُبُوا from لَا يَكْتُبُونَ?
Negating the Imperfect with Lan and Lam: Subjunctive, Jussive and Full Paradigms
- It becomes passive and singular
- It becomes past-negative, and inflectional nūn drops
- It becomes future-negative, and an extra nūn appears
- It shifts from third-person plural to first-person plural