The Clear Arabic Grammar

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