الزَّيْدُونَ ضَرَبُوا — The Zayds struck. الزَّيْدُونَ is a nominative plural mubtadaʾ marked by wāw. ضَرَبُوا is a past verb; wāw al-jamāʿa is the attached subject pronoun. The alif after it is a written distinguishing alif and is not pronounced. The verbal clause is the predicate.
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Plural: The Zayds Struck
Rules of the Fāʿil: Explicit Nouns, Pronouns, Number and Gender
الزَّيْدُونَ ضَرَبُوا — The Zayds struck. الزَّيْدُونَ is a nominative plural mubtadaʾ marked by wāw. ضَرَبُوا is a past verb; wāw al-jamāʿa is the attached subject pronoun. The alif after it is a written distinguishing alif and is not pronounced. The verbal clause is the predicate.