13/09/2023
بَابُ الفَاعِلِ
The Verbal Subject
اَلْفَاعِلُ هُوَ: الاسْمُ اَلمَرْفُوعُ اَلمَذْكُورُ قَبْلَهُ فِعْلُهُ. وَهُوَ عَلَى قِسْمَيْنِ: ظَاهِرٍ، ومُضْمَرٍ.
Translation: A Verbal Subject is a Marfu’ noun before which the verb is mentioned, and it is of two types: explicit and implicit
The فاعل is the verbal subject or the subject in a verbal sentence – a sentence in Arabic that starts with a verb. The فاعل is always a noun and marfū’.
For instance, we can say:
قَامَ زَيدٌ – verbal sentence
We can also say:
زَيدٌ قَامَ – nominal sentence
If the verb is mentioned before the subject as in the first case, then it is فاعل. If the subject comes before as in the second sentence, then it is مبتدأ which we will look at later.
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