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Asking, rather, and the words that work like inna

How a question is asked, bal, "rather", the small words that, like inna, put the noun after them in the accusative, and laysa, "is not".

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Mots du Coran connus en entier
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Parties des mots du Coran enseignées jusqu’ici
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Lesson 5 taught a-, which turns a sentence into a question. This lesson teaches more ways to ask, and bal, "rather". It also teaches the words that work like inna from lesson 4, which put the noun or pronoun after them in the accusative, and laysa, "is not".

The new words

  • هَلTel que le Coran l’écrit: هَلْ · هَل · هَلِ

    a question that asks yes or no

    Occurrences dans le Coran: 93

  • كَيْفTel que le Coran l’écrit: كَيْفَ

    how

    Racine: ك ي فOccurrences dans le Coran: 83

  • أَمTel que le Coran l’écrit: أَمْ · أَ · أَمِ

    or (in a question)

    Occurrences dans le Coran: 137

  • بَلTel que le Coran l’écrit: بَلْ · بَل · بَلِ

    rather; no, but

    Occurrences dans le Coran: 127

  • لَٰكِنTel que le Coran l’écrit: لَٰكِن · لَٰكِنِ · لَٰكِنْ

    but

    Occurrences dans le Coran: 73

  • لَعَلّTel que le Coran l’écrit: لَعَلَّ · لَّعَلَّ

    perhaps; so that

    Occurrences dans le Coran: 123

  • لَّيْسَTel que le Coran l’écrit: لَيْسَ · لَّيْسَ · لَسْ

    is not

    Racine: ل ي سOccurrences dans le Coran: 89

Asking

Hal asks a question that is answered "yes" or "no".

هَلْ
Ses parties
  1. هَلْa question that asks yes or no
Coran 79:15

Kayfa is "how".

كَيْفَ
Ses parties
  1. كَيْفَhow
Coran 88:17

Am is "or" inside a question: "is it this, or that?". It can also open a question of its own after what was said before: "or …?".

Rather

بَلْ
Ses parties
  1. بَلْrather; no, but
Coran 82:9

Bal is "rather": it turns from what was said before to what is said in its place, or to something further. The corpus calls it a particle of retraction.

Like inna

Lākin, "but", is most often said with a single n. Then the corpus marks it as a particle of amendment, and it does not change the ending of what follows. Said with a doubled n, lākinna works like inna; the corpus counts most of those as a word of its own, not as this one.

Laʿalla, "perhaps" or "so that", works like inna: the noun after it is in the accusative, and a pronoun is joined to it. The corpus counts it with inna's kind.

لَعَلَّهُۥ
Ses parties
  1. لَعَلَّperhaps; so that
  2. هُۥhim, his; it, its
Coran 80:3

Laʿallahu is laʿalla and hu, "he": "perhaps he".

Is not

Laysa, "is not", works like kāna, "was", from lesson 6: what is said of its subject is in the accusative. It has a past form only, but means "is not".

لَّسْتَ
Ses parties
  1. لَّسْis not
  2. تَyou, your (one man)
Coran 88:22

Lasta is laysa with ta, "you": "you are not". Before ta, laysa is shortened to las-. The corpus marks it as a verb of kāna's kind. What is said of "you" here has bi- in front, bi-muṣayṭirin, and so is in the genitive: bi- is often set before what laysa says.

In a sentence

Une phrase écrite pour s’exercer
هَلْ هٰذَا قَلَمُكَ؟

Is this your pen?

This sentence was written for practice. Hal hādhā qalamuka?: hal, then "this is your pen", and it is a question.

Une phrase écrite pour s’exercer
لَيْسَ الْبَيْتُ بَعِيدًا

The house is not far.

Laysa l-baytu baʿīdan: "far" is in the accusative, baʿīdan, after laysa.

Reading

Les mots que vous connaissez en entier après cette leçon sont signalés.

ثُمَّ (connu) جَعَلْنَـٰكُمْ (connu) خَلَـٰٓئِفَ فِى (connu) ٱلْأَرْضِ (connu) مِنۢ (connu) بَعْدِهِمْ (connu) لِنَنظُرَ (connu) كَيْفَ (connu) تَعْمَلُونَ (connu)

Puis Nous vous avons fait succéder à ces peuples sur terre afin de voir quel serait votre comportement.

French Translation - Rachid Maach · QuranEnc.com · version 1.0.3
Coran 10:14
أَمْ (connu) ءَاتَيْنَـٰهُمْ (connu) كِتَـٰبًا (connu) مِّن (connu) قَبْلِهِۦ (connu) فَهُم (connu) بِهِۦ (connu) مُسْتَمْسِكُونَ

Ou alors leur avons-Nous confié, avant celui-ci, un livre auquel ils ne font que se référer[5] ?

French Translation - Rachid Maach · QuranEnc.com · version 1.0.3
Coran 43:21
قَالُوا۟ (connu) بَلْ (connu) جِئْنَـٰكَ (connu) بِمَا (connu) كَانُوا۟ (connu) فِيهِ (connu) يَمْتَرُونَ

Ils dirent : « Nous sommes seulement venus infliger à ton peuple le châtiment dont il n’a cessé de douter.

French Translation - Rachid Maach · QuranEnc.com · version 1.0.3
Coran 15:63

Recall

  • What kind of question does hal ask?
  • What case is the noun after laʿalla in?
  • How does laysa change what is said of its subject?

Answers: one answered "yes" or "no"; the accusative; it puts it in the accusative, as kāna does, unless bi- stands before it.

Next

The next lesson teaches eight common verbs, and what happens to a verb whose root has a weak letter or a hamzah.