The Imperfect Verb: Recognition, Time, Prefixes and Mood
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- Which time readings can the imperfect yaktubu allow?
- What underlies the name muḍāriʿ?
- Which are the four imperfect prefixes?
- What is the imperfect of ḍaraba?
- Which is the active participle corresponding to yastakhriju?
- How is the time of huwa yaqraʾu determined?
- What time does al-āna mark?
- What does ghadan select with the imperfect?
- Function of sīn in sa-yaktubu?
- Spelling difference between sīn and sawfa?
- What is the la- in la-yaqūmu?
- Why is li-yaktub jussive?
- Imperfect of akrama?
- Imperfect of daḥraja?
- Imperfect of taʿallama?
- Imperfect of istakhraja?
- What counts as four-letter past here?
- What does na- indicate in naktubu?
- Who is the subject in aktubu?
- Who is the subject in taktubu Hindun?
- Person and gender of anta taktubu?
- What form is hunna yaktubna?
- What form is antunna taktubna?
- Who is addressed by anti taktubīna?
- What form is humā yaktubāni?
- What is humā taktubāni?
- How many first-person slots in the traditional imperfect?
- Which three moods does the imperfect have?
- What marks rafʿ in yaktubu?
- Mood of yaktuba after lan?
- Mood after lam?
- Time interpretation of lam yaktub?
- Time interpretation of lan yaktuba?
- Mood of yaktubu after sīn?
- Mood of yaʿmalu in inna Zaydan la-yaʿmalu?
- Why is the verb subjunctive in the sentence?
- Why is ad-darsa accusative in the same sentence?
- What replaces jarr in the imperfect?
- Role of nūn in hunna yaktubna?
- Building of yaktubna?
- Best analysis of lan yaktubna?
- Syntactic position of lam yaktubna?
- What is the final nūn in la-yaktubanna?
- Building with directly attached emphatic nūn?
- Correct distinction between the two endings?
- Subject of yaktubna?
- Subject of la-yaktubanna Zaydun?
- What do katabna and yaktubna share?
- Subject of lan taktuba Hindun ghadan?
- Function of ad-darsa in lam yafham ...?
- Which sentence has both a subjunctive verb and an accusative object?
- Main distinction between muʿrab and mabnī imperfects?
- What is the next source chapter?
- The imperfect resembles nouns in form and meaning.
- Sawfa makes yaktubu jussive.
- Yukrimu has a ḍamma prefix because its past akrama has four letters.
- Every imperfect with initial tāʾ is second-person masculine singular.
- Antumā taktubāni may address either gender dual.
- Imperfect verbs have jarr and nouns have jazm.
- Lam yaktub remains morphologically an imperfect.
- Sa-yaktubu is future in meaning and indicative in mood.
- The two lāms have the same grammatical function.
- The nūn in yaktubna is its subject.
- Lan yaktubna must show a fatḥa on bāʾ.
- Directly attached emphatic nūn builds the imperfect on fatḥ.
- Emphatic nūn is the subject of la-yaktubanna Zaydun.
- Both katabna and yaktubna are past.
- In sa-yaktubu yāʾ is the imperfect prefix and sīn marks futurity.
- An imperfect formed from a four-letter past has a ḍamma prefix.