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