The key rules are: every verb has a subject, fundamentally nominative; a transitive verb may also take a direct object; with an explicit noun subject after the verb, the verb remains singular; with a pronoun subject, the verb agrees with that pronoun; feminine agreement is obligatory with an adjacent explicit real-feminine subject, while separation and non-real feminine subjects allow alternatives in the stated cases; the book gives several permitted constructions with broken plurals.
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Rules of the Fāʿil: Explicit Nouns, Pronouns, Number and Gender
The key rules are: every verb has a subject, fundamentally nominative; a transitive verb may also take a direct object; with an explicit noun subject after the verb, the verb remains singular; with a pronoun subject, the verb agrees with that pronoun; feminine agreement is obligatory with an adjacent explicit real-feminine subject, while separation and non-real feminine subjects allow alternatives in the stated cases; the book gives several permitted constructions with broken plurals.