The Imperative: Definition, Formation, Hamza, and Building Signs

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• Whom does a direct imperative address?
• Imperative of tanṣuru?
• Imperative of taḍribu?
• Imperative of taftaḥu?
• Why is uktub initial hamza ḍamma?
• Why does iʿlam begin with i?
• Third letter in iḍrib?
• Imperative of tastakhriju?
• Which hamza begins akrim?
• Imperative of yukrimu?
• Imperative of yuʿallimu?
• Imperative of yuḥāsibu?
• Imperative of yataʿallamu?
• Imperative of yajtamiʿu?
• Imperative of yaʿidu?
• Imperative of yaṣilu?
• Basic grammatical status of the imperative?
• Building sign of uktub?
• What is the building sign of irmi?
• What is deleted in udʿu?
• Why is isʿa built on weak-letter deletion?
• Building sign of uktubā?
• Role of alif in uktubā?
• Building sign of uktubū?
• What is wāw in uktubū?
• Subject pronoun in uktubī?
• Building sign of uktubna?
• Role of nūn in uktubna?
• Distinct surface forms among six imperative slots?
• Common dual imperative?
• Direct heavy emphatic nūn: building of uktubanna?
• What is taktub in lā taktub?
• Mood of yaktub in li-yaktub ʿAliyyun?
• Subject in iftaḥ al-bāba?
• Syntactic role of al-bāba?
• Role of hunā in ijlis hunā?
• Subject in uktubū al-jawāba?
• How many addressees in iftaḥā al-bāba?
• Subject in iqraʾna al-darsa?
• Wrong inference from fatḥa in isʿa?
• What happens to waṣl hamza in connected wa-ktub?
• Key difference between istakhrij and akrim?
• Grammatical difference between lam yaktub and uktub?
• Correct analysis of kasra in irmi?
• Final alif in uktubū?
• Contrast uktubna versus uktubū building?
• What rule is missed by reading akrim as waṣl-ikrim?
• The imperative asks the addressee to act.
• Every imperative must begin with hamzat al-waṣl.
• Uktub has initial u per the Form I rule.
• Form IV imperative has hamzat al-qaṭʿ.
• Ḥāsib needs an inserted initial hamza.
• The imperative is inflected and therefore called jussive.
• Irmi is built with final yāʾ deleted.
• Final fatḥa in isʿa proves building on fatḥa.
• Plural wāw is the subject in uktubū.
• Feminine-plural nūn is deleted in uktubna.
• Masculine and feminine dual imperative forms coincide.
• Taktub in lā taktub is itself an imperative.