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Sunday, January 11, 2015

As-Sarf Lesson 13

 

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Taught by: Umm Hyatt al-Ameriki حفظها الله
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·       Every single verb must have a doer (the one doing the action).

·       It is not compulsory that every sentence has to have an object.

·       The doer could be a masculine noun or a feminine noun.

Example:     ذَهَبَ مُحمد الي الدُكَّان  - (Muhammad went to the shop.)

The verb is: ذَهَبَ  (to go)
The one doing the action is: مُحمد  (Muhammad is the Proper noun.)

Sometimes, instead of using the proper noun, we use the pronoun (he) in place of Muhammad. (i.e. the doer could be a pronoun).

Example:
ذَهَبَ الي الدُكَّان
(He went to the  store.)

In this sentence we don't have a proper noun to show who went to the shop. But we understand that there is a pronoun that is doing the action, which is hidden (i.e. understood) inside the verb. That pronoun is  هُوَ - 'he'. Therefore, the verb in its 3-leter root form (past tense) is always in the masculine gender 'he'.

Therefore, we don't have to say:          ذَهَبَ الي الدُكَّان هُوَ

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