The Indicative Imperfect and Its Governor

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• What governs the indicative imperfect in the textbook?
• Correct cause and marker in yaktubu?
• Which description fits an abstract governor?
• Indicator of rafʿ on yaḍribu?
• How is yaghzū indicative?
• Indicative marker of yarmī?
• Indicative marker of yasʿā?
• Which is an indicative imperfect here?
• Why is lan yaktuba subjunctive?
• Governor of jazm in lam yaktub?
• Which is indicative in yaḥfaẓu al-ṭālibu al-darsa?
• What does accusative al-darsa do to yaḥfaẓu?
• Indicative marker of yaktubāni?
• Which part is the subject pronoun in yaktubūna?
• Indicative marker of taktubīna?
• Which is not among the five-verb forms?
• Mood of yafhamu after negative lā?
• Which kind of lā in lā taktub?
• If lā taktubu is a plain statement of negation, its mood?
• Effect of negative mā in mā yakdhibu?
• Which has a subjunctive verb?
• Role of sa- in sayanjaḥu?
• Mood of yaḥḍuru after sawfa?
• Which of these three is subjunctive?
• What do yasʿā and lan yasʿā share?
• Marker of naṣb on lan yarmiya?
• Jussive marker of lam yadʿu?
• Analysis of hunna yaktubna?
• Syntactic mood position in lan yaktubna?
• Syntactic mood position in lam yaktubna?
• Building of layaktubanna al-ṭālibu?
• Function of the full clause in zaydun yajlisu?
• Zayd’s role in yajlisu zaydun?
• Mood of yajlisu in zaydun yajlisu?
• The textbook’s causal account aligns with which view?
• What is the Basran explanation?
• Role of al-qāʿidata?
• Why is yaḥfaẓāni indicative?
• Why is yarmī indicative after lā here?
• Most important first check before describing indicative markers?
• Yarmī is not jussive merely because ḍamma is invisible.
• Every future marker makes the imperfect subjunctive.
• Negative lā and prohibitive lā have the same effect.
• The nūn in yaktubūna marks indicative mood.
• Lan yasʿā and bare yasʿā are both indicative.
• Yaktubna has feminine plural nūn, not indicative inflectional nūn.
• Indicative cause and its marker mean exactly the same thing.
• In yajlisu zaydun, Zayd is subject and yajlisu is indicative.
• The Basran/Kūfan explanation changes the actual indicative ending of yaḍribu.
• Direct emphasis nūn can make the imperfect indeclinable.