An-Nahw Al-Waadih, Part One, Lesson 5 : The Object of the Verb (Al-maf’oolu Bihi)

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Lesson 5:   The Object of the Verb ( Al-maf’oolu bihi ) Al-qaa’idah : (8)        Al-maf’oolu bihi: Ismun man s oobun waqa’a alaihi fi’lu al-faa’il.   The Rule : (8)        Al-maf’oolu bihi : An accusative noun on which the doer’s action occurred/fell.   Al-amthilah :   The examples : 1.        The student tied the rope. 2.       The girl folded the cloth. 3.       The wolf ate the lamb. 4.       The first-one wins a prize. 5.       The fox hunts a hen. 6.       The butcher sells the meat.     Explanation : Al-maf’oolu bihi is the noun on which an action falls on. Put it simply, it is the object of the verb in a sentence. As mentioned in the rule above, al-maf’oolu bihi is always man s oobun (i.e. it always ends with a fathah ) or you can say it is an accusative noun ( ismun man s oobun ). So what does that mean? It means it is a noun that has a diacritical fathah on its last letter. By default, when an Arabic noun has a fathah on its last
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The Moon Letters and The Sun Letters (al-Huroofu al-Qamariyyah wa al-Huroofu ash-Shamsiyyah)

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The Moon Letters and The Sun Letters (al-Huroofu al-Qamariyyah wa al-Huroofu ash-Shamsiyyah)

When the prefix ‘al-’ is attached to a noun that starts with a Moon Letter, the word is pronounced normally. E.g. Al-qamaru will be pronounced normally as al-qamaru.

However, when the prefix ‘al-’ is attached to a noun that starts with a Sun letter, the ‘l’ in ‘al’ is assimilated into the Sun letter.  E.g. Al-shamsu will be pronounced as ash-shamsu (the ‘l’ is assimilated into the ‘sh’).

 

The table below was taken from Duroos al-Lughat al-‘Arabiyyah by Shaykh Dr. V. Abdur-Raheem, and it contains all the Moon Letters and the Sun Letters and their examples in some words. 

  The column on your right contains the Moon Letters (al-Huroofu al-Qamariyyah) while the column on the left contains the Sun Letters (al-Huroofu ash-Shamsiyyah).





    




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An-Nahw Al-Waadih, Part One, Lesson 5 : The Object of the Verb (Al-maf’oolu Bihi)

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Lesson 5:   The Object of the Verb ( Al-maf’oolu bihi ) Al-qaa’idah : (8)        Al-maf’oolu bihi: Ismun man s oobun waqa’a alaihi fi’lu al-faa’il.   The Rule : (8)        Al-maf’oolu bihi : An accusative noun on which the doer’s action occurred/fell.   Al-amthilah :   The examples : 1.        The student tied the rope. 2.       The girl folded the cloth. 3.       The wolf ate the lamb. 4.       The first-one wins a prize. 5.       The fox hunts a hen. 6.       The butcher sells the meat.     Explanation : Al-maf’oolu bihi is the noun on which an action falls on. Put it simply, it is the object of the verb in a sentence. As mentioned in the rule above, al-maf’oolu bihi is always man s oobun (i.e. it always ends with a fathah ) or you can say it is an accusative noun ( ismun man s oobun ). So what does that mean? It means it is a noun that has a diacritical fathah on its last letter. By default, when an Arabic noun has a fathah on its last
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