LessonsThe Prohibitive: Active and Passive Paradigms with Emphatic NūnQuiz

The light emphatic nūn «نْ» also adds emphasis to prohibition but is not doubled. The source displays light-nūn forms in eight of the fourteen positions for each voice, leaving six positions blank.

Word / formMeaning / explanation
لَا تَفْعَلَنْdo not do it, emphatically.
لَا يَفْعَلَنْlet him emphatically not do it.
لَا نَفْعَلَنْlet us certainly not do it.

Four dual positions and the two feminine-plural positions have no light-nūn entries in this source paradigm. Filling them by mechanical analogy would misrepresent the table.

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Light emphatic nūn and missing positions

The Prohibitive: Active and Passive Paradigms with Emphatic Nūn

The light emphatic nūn «نْ» also adds emphasis to prohibition but is not doubled. The source displays light-nūn forms in eight of the fourteen positions for each voice, leaving six positions blank.

Word / formMeaning / explanation
لَا تَفْعَلَنْdo not do it, emphatically.
لَا يَفْعَلَنْlet him emphatically not do it.
لَا نَفْعَلَنْlet us certainly not do it.

Four dual positions and the two feminine-plural positions have no light-nūn entries in this source paradigm. Filling them by mechanical analogy would misrepresent the table.