Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Elementary Arabic Morphology 1 The Division of The Verb Into Declinable and Indeclinable 1 What do you understand about a declinable verb? What verbs are declinable? What kinds of cases does a verb have? What is the nominative sign of verb? What is the subjunctive sign of a verb? What is the jussive sign of a verb? The cases of a verb are determined by the changing of the end of the verb due to its placement in a sentence.
The only verb that is declinable is the aorist tense. For example: یَقرَﺃ یَکتُبُ (he is writing, he is reading) There are three cases for declinable verbs: the nominative case, the subjunctive case and the jussive case. The principle of the nominative case is the verb having a dummah.
The subtraction of the nūn takes the place of the sakūn in the aorist verbs. For example: لَم یَفعَلا The subtraction of the weak letter when it is the last root letter of a weak verb takes the place of a sakūn. For example: لَم یَرمِ (he did not throw) Previous Next