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مَرَرْتُ بِعُمَرٍ آخَرَ — “I passed another ʿUmar.”

عُمَرٍ: genitive triptote with kasrah and tanwīn in its indefinite use. آخَرَ: genitive adjective agreeing in case, but a diptote in its own right, so its genitive marker is fatḥah.

Agreement in case does not require identical visible case markers.

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The adjective آخَر in a genitive phrase

Restoring Declension: Indefinite Names, Al- and Iḍāfah

مَرَرْتُ بِعُمَرٍ آخَرَ — “I passed another ʿUmar.”

عُمَرٍ: genitive triptote with kasrah and tanwīn in its indefinite use. آخَرَ: genitive adjective agreeing in case, but a diptote in its own right, so its genitive marker is fatḥah.

Agreement in case does not require identical visible case markers.