Lesson 22

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LESSON 22 NOMINALS IN THE NOMINATIVE CASE

1. In Arabic, when a nominal stands next to another word, together they form a structure.
2. Each structure has its own syntactic role and thus has a name.
3. Anominalin these structures will be found in either the nominative case, مَرْفُوْعٌ ( marfu’ ), the accusative case, مَنْصُوْبٌ ( manṣub ) or the genitive case, مَجْرُوْرٌ ( majrur ).
4. There are eight reasons why anominal should be in the nominative case.
5. Kindly see Table 56 below fornominals in the nominative case ( which is red in colour ).
6. Nominals in other cases will be dealt with in subsequent lessons.

TABLE 56 NOMINALS IN THE NOMINATIVE CASE

No	PRECEDED BY	NAME OF STRUCTURE	KINDLY SEE LESSON	EXPLANATION	EXAMPLE
1.	*followed by إِسْمٌ ( isim )	مُبْتَدَأٌ ( mubtada’)	13	Subject of a nominal sentence	تَاجِرٌ أَحْمَدٌ ( Ahmadun tajirun ) meaning ‘Ahmad is a merchant’.
2.	إِسْمٌ ( isim )	خَبَرٌ ( khabar )	13	Predicate of a nominal sentence	تَاجِرٌ أَحْمَدٌ ( Ahmadun tajirun ) meaning ‘Ahmad is a merchant’.
3.	كَانَ ( kaana )	إِسْمٌ كَانَ ( isim kaana )	14	First portion of a kaana sentence	تَاجِرًا كَانَ أَحْمَدٌ ( kaana Ahmadun tajiran ) meaning ‘Ahmad was a merchant’.
4.	إِنَّ ( inna ) and إِنَّ إِسْمٌ ( isim inna )	خَبَرٌ إِنَّ ( khabar inna )	15	Second portion of an inna sentence	تَاجِرٌ أَحْمَدً إِنَّ ) inna Ahmadan tajirun ) meaning ‘Indeed Ahmad is a merchant’.
5.	فِعْلٌ مَعْرُوْفٌ ( fi’il makruf )	فَاعِلٌ ( fa’il )	17	Subject ( doer ) of an active verb	زَرَاَ اَلْفَلَاحُ اَلْقُطْنَ ( zara-a alfalahu alqutna ) meaning ‘The peasant cultivated cotton’.
6.	فِعْلٌ مَجْهُوْلٌ ( fi’il majhul )	نَائِبٌ فَاعِلٌ ( naib fa’il )	17	Subject ( substitute of the doer ) of a passive verb	زُرِاَ اَلْقُطْنُ ( zuri-a alqutnu ) meaning ‘Cotton was cultivated’.
7.	إِسْمٌ ( isim )	تَابِعٌ ( tabi’un )	21	Follows the preceding isim in form and state	هُوَالْمَلِكُ الْقُدُّوْسُ ( huwa l-maliku l-quddusu ) meaning ‘He is the Sovereign, the Holy One’
8.	-	‘Default form ‘	13	Any nominal that stands alone	تَاجِرٌ ( tajirun ) meaning ‘a merchant’.

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