LessonsTanāzuʿ al-Fiʿlayn — When Two Verbs Compete for One NounQuiz

ضَرَبَنِي وَأَكْرَمَنِي زَيْدٌ — Zayd struck me and honored me.

ضَرَبَ: active past verb, built on fatḥa; its subject is understood as an implicit «هُوَ» referring to Zayd in this analysis.
نِي: protective nūn plus first-person pronoun; the pronoun is an accusative object.
وَ: coordinating conjunction.
أَكْرَمَ: active past verb; its «نِي» is another object.
زَيْدٌ: nominative subject of the second verb «أَكْرَمَ».

This is the parsing when the second verb governs the overt noun.

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Tanāzuʿ al-Fiʿlayn — When Two Verbs Compete for One Noun

ضَرَبَنِي وَأَكْرَمَنِي زَيْدٌ — Zayd struck me and honored me.

ضَرَبَ: active past verb, built on fatḥa; its subject is understood as an implicit «هُوَ» referring to Zayd in this analysis.
نِي: protective nūn plus first-person pronoun; the pronoun is an accusative object.
وَ: coordinating conjunction.
أَكْرَمَ: active past verb; its «نِي» is another object.
زَيْدٌ: nominative subject of the second verb «أَكْرَمَ».

This is the parsing when the second verb governs the overt noun.