The Passive Verb: Past, Imperfect, and Proxy Subject

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• Role of al-bābu in futiḥa al-bābu?
• What does passive imply?
• Convert kataba Khālidun al-darsa to passive.
• Passive past of fataḥa?
• Passive past of daḥraja?
• Passive of akrama?
• Nominative marker on darsun?
• Proxy subject in ukrima al-muʿallimu?
• Passive vowel pattern in initial extra tāʾ forms?
• Presented passive morphological form of taʿallama?
• Passive of istakhraja?
• Which onset is elided when wa-stukhrija is linked?
• Passive of yaktubu?
• What does the final ḍamma of yuktabu mark?
• Mood of lan yuk­taba?
• Mood of lam yuktab?
• Voice contrast in yukrimu/yukramu?
• Type of yuʿallamu?
• Passive of yuḥāsibu?
• Active counterpart of yudaḥraju?
• Why is initial yu- not enough in Forms II–IV?
• Passive of yastakhriju?
• Ordinary passive past of qāla?
• Ordinary passive past of bāʿa?
• Role of al-ḥaqqu in qīla al-ḥaqqu?
• What is ishmām here?
• Passive of yaqūlu?
• Passive of yabīʿu?
• Why feminine tāʾ in futiḥat nāfidhatun?
• Role of alif in al-bābāni?
• Role of wāw in al-muʿallimūna?
• Role of preposed al-bābu in al-bābu futiḥa?
• Problem with kutiba bāban as a one-object passive?
• Are the first vowel of futiḥa and ending of al-bābu equivalent?
• First ḍamma in yuktabu?
• Reason for final fatḥa in lan yuk­taba?
• What do the two ḍammas mark?
• Role of al-ʿāmilu in yuḥāsabu al-ʿāmilu?
• Why kasra on tāʾ in kutibati al-rasāʾilu?
• Correct past and imperfect passive pair?
• Passive of kataba al-ṭālibu risālatan?
• A passive sentence does not require the agent to be truly unknown.
• Al-bābu is an accusative direct object in futiḥa al-bābu.
• Regular triliteral past passive has initial ḍamma and penultimate kasra.
• Form IV loses its hamzat al-qaṭʿ in passive.
• The initial hamza of ustukhrija is waṣl.
• Tuʿullima has two initial ḍammas.
• Initial ḍamma always distinguishes active from passive imperfect.
• The main contrast in yuʿallimu/yuʿallamu is the doubled lām vowel.
• Lan yuk­taba is subjunctive because it is passive.
• Bīʿa is the standard hollow past passive.
• Ishmām is merely another written spelling.
• Yuqālu is imperfect passive and qīla past passive.
• Al-bābu is mubtadaʾ in al-bābu futiḥa.
• The verb must be dual in futiḥa al-bābāni.
• Basic passive conversion changes both verb voice and object case.