Arabic grammar 101

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Jul 16, 2011 at 13:51

This is for the readers and I do realize that grammar under any conditons can be a very dry subject more so if it is in a foreign language and to add insult to injury a language that no one seems to follow as the truth is in today's spoken Egyptian Arabic there are no cases period

So let us work on the sentence again

in Hadhan la sahiran

1. In means truly and it is an introductory particle but it would affct the grammatical cases as you shall see and the fact that there is a sukun or no short vowel above the nuun does not change the grammar or the grammatical rule called in wa akhawatiha as you shall see below

2. Hadhan means they in the dual (are is assumed) and it is al-mubtada' or the subject of the sentence

3. la means but

4. sahiran means magicians and this is the grammatical khabar of the sentence or the predicate

now the grammtical rule called in wa akhawatiha is

in tarfa3 al-mubtada wa tansub al-khabr

or in places the subject or al-mubtada' in the accusative case and the predicate or al-khabar in the nominative

easy so far

nominative case as in al-kitabu (damma)

accusative case as in yaktuba (fatha)

genitive case as in dhahaba ila al-maktabi (kasra)

So back to our sentence

Quranic Hadhan is in the nominative with the alif before the nuun when it should be in the accusative or hadhayne or a ya or yeh and then nuun

Now I hope it is clear

So it should be

in hadhayne (in the accusative and not the nominative as we find in the Qur'an) la sahiran (it stays in the nominative

If our dear Amin does not get this much he is very mcuh beyond help

Our dear Amin it is your sources that tell us the above we kuffar only tell you what we are being told

Now you put up or you must pardon me shut up

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