7.8-12 – Convert Verbal Sentence to Nominative

 

Section 7.12 – Convert Verbal Sentence (جُملةُالْفِعْلِيَةُ jum-la-tul fei-liya-tu) to a Nominal Sentence (جُملةُ الْاِسْمِيَةُ jum-la-tul is-mi-ya-tu)

 

Sometimes, a Verbal sentence needs to be converted into a nominal sentence (for example for the purpose of using emphasis by اِنَّ inna or ل lam of emphasis which are used in nominative sentences). Depending upon whether the فَاعِلٌ faa-'i-lun (actor) is explicit (mentioned) or implicit (hidden) there are two different ways:

1) If the Actor/Subject is mentioned مَذْكُوْرٌ maz-koor then, it is pulled in front as in خَرَجَ مُوْسٰى (kha-ra-jaMusa) can be خَرَجَ مُوْسٰى(Musa kh-ra-ja).

2) If the Actor/Subject is implicit, then the pronoun hidden in it is pulled ahead. Since all 14 inflections of a Verb have implicit pronouns, this rule applies to them as shown below in Table 40:

 

Table 40 – pronoun as Object Example

 

Verbal sentence	Nominative sentence	Meaning
فَعَلَ   Fa-ala	هُوَ فَعَلَ   Hua fa-ala	He did
فَعَلَا   Fa-alaa	هُمَا فَعَلَا   Hu-ma fa-alaa	They both males did
فَعَلُوْا   Fa-a-loo	هُم فَعَلُوْا   Hum Fa-aa-loo	All males did
فَعَلَتْ   Fa-alat	هِيَ فَعَلَتْ   Hi-ya Fa-alat	she did
فَعَلَتَا   Fa-ala-taa	هُمَا فَعَلَتَا   Hu-maa Fa-ala-taa	They both females did
فَعلْنَ   Fa-al-na	هُنَّ فَعلْنَ   Hun-na Fa-al-na	They all females did
فَعَلْتَ   Fa-al-ta	اَنْتَ فَعَلْتَ   An-ta Fa-al-ta	You male did
فَعَلْتُمَا   Fa-al-tu-maa	اَنْتُمَا فَعَلْتُمَا   An-tu-maa Fa-al-tu-maa	You both males did
فَعَلْتُمْ   Fa-al-tum	اَنْتُم فَعَلْتُمْ   An-tum Fa-al-tum	You all males did
فَعَلْتِ   Fa-al-ti	اَنْتِ فَعَلْتِ   An-ti Fa-al-ti	You female did
فَعَلْتُمَا   Fa-al-tu-ma	اَنْتُمَا فَعَلْتُمَا   An-tu-maa Fa-al-tu-maa	You both females did
فَعَلْتُنَّ   Fa-al-tun-na	اَنْتُنَّ فَعَلْتُنَّ   An-tun-na	You all females did
فَعَلْتُ   Fa-al-tu	اَنَا فَعَلْتُ   Anaa Fa-al-tu	I (male/female) did
فَعَلْنَا   fa-al-naa	نَحْنُ فَعَلْنَا   Nah-nu fa-al-naa	We (male/female/dual/ plural) did

 

Now since اِنَّ in-na is never used in front of a Verb, a Verbal sentence can be converted to a nominative sentence and اِنَّ in-na is added as in:

 

خَلَقَ اللّٰهُ الاَرْضَ khalaq-Allah-ularda

 (Allah created the earth) - Verbal sentence

خَلَقَ الاَرْضَ اللّٰهُ Allahu kha-la-qal ar-da

 (Allah created the earth) - nominal sentence

خَلَقَ الاَرْضَ اللّٰهَاِنَّ  in-nal-laha kha-la-qal arda

 (verily Allah created the earth) - nominal sentence with emphasis

 

Note that emphasis can be achieved in a Verbal sentence in other was by using other Particles such as قَدْ qad and ل (called lam of emphasis) which was covered earlier.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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