The Two Emphatic Nūns: Forms and Rules

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• How many main emphatic nūn types are listed?
• What defines the light nūn?
• What characterizes heavy nūn?
• Which nūn ends iḍriban?
• Which nūn ends iḍribanna?
• What vowel does heavy nūn take without preceding alif?
• What vowel follows alif on heavy nūn?
• Which form is emphatic masculine singular imperative?
• Who is addressed by uktubunna?
• Who is addressed by uktubinna?
• Which marker is lost in masculine-plural emphatic imperative?
• Which marker is deleted in feminine singular imperative?
• Which form is uktubānni?
• Which addressees fit uktubnānni?
• Why is an alif inserted in feminine-plural emphatic form?
• Where is light nūn excluded by the base text?
• Why is light nūn barred in the dual?
• Why not simply vowel the light nūn?
• Which sentence illustrates emphasis on a command?
• Which lā is used in lā taktubanna?
• What construction is hal taktubanna?
• What is the force of laytaka taktubanna?
• What does ʿarḍ signify in alā tanzilanna ʿindanā?
• Which is not one of the five listed request settings?
• What structure is wallāhi laʾaktubanna?
• What is the function of wāw in wallāhi?
• What is the lām of laʾaktubanna?
• Is emphatic nūn appended to every past verb?
• What is the nūn of yaktubāni?
• What is the nūn of yaktubna?
• Why is the ending of rajulun not emphatic nūn?
• What explains the final fatḥ of layaktubanna?
• What is wājibaka in lā tuḥmilanna wājibaka?
• Who is the subject in uktubanna al-jawāba?
• What is the alif of uktubānni?
• What is the alif of uktubnānni?
• What do dual and feminine plural heavy nūn forms share?
• Whose differing view is mentioned by the commentary?
• What is the strongest parsing method here?
• Which is the final chapter of the source sequence?
• The light emphatic nūn is unvowelled.
• The heavy emphatic nūn lacks shadda.
• Heavy nūn remains fatḥa-marked even after alif.
• Uktubanna has an implied singular addressee subject.
• The plural wāw remains written in uktubunna.
• Uktubinna has kasra pointing to the feminine singular.
• The dual alif remains in uktubānni.
• The feminine subject nūn and emphatic nūn are the same morpheme.
• The source normally uses light nūn with dual and feminine plural.
• Emphatic nūn can occur in the five listed request contexts.
• Every possible oath answer requires both lām and nūn.
• The heavy nūn makes the present verb in lā taktubanna built on fatḥ.
• Tanwīn of rajulun and nūn of uktuban are one grammatical type.
• The text contrasts qad in discussion of past emphasis.
• The separator alif in feminine plural is a dual subject pronoun.
• Yūnus’s reported view differs from the base-text restriction.
• The indicative nūn of yaktubāni is emphatic nūn.
• Every nūn-emphasized present verb with fatḥa is accusative.
• This is the last chapter in the adopted Hidāyat-un-Naḥw sequence.