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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Parsing: (You two struck the student, or you [plural feminine] struck the female student)

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Parsing: (You two struck the student, or you [plural feminine] struck the female student)
Your Eminence, may Allah guide you and protect you,What is the parsing of: (You two struck the student, or you [plural feminine] struck the female student)?

The grammarians say: "You two struck the student": As for "you two," the parsing is that it is aAs for "you two": detached pronoun, built on sukun, in the position of a nominative subject (mubtada').

And the taa: A letter of address,And the mimm and alif: the marker of dual number.

And "struck" (dual): A verb and its subject.

"Struck": A past-tense verb, built on sukun because it is connected to the taa of the nominative,And the mimm and alif: the marker of dual number.

And "the student": An object in the accusative case, and its marker of accusative is the visible fathah on its end.
As for "you [plural feminine] struck the female student", we say: "You [plural feminine]" is a detached pronoun, built on sukun, in the position of a nominative subject (mubtada'),And the taa: a letter of address,And the noon: the marker of the feminine plural.

"Struck" (feminine plural): A verb and its subject.

"Struck": A past-tense verb, built on sukun because it is connected to the taa of the subject.

And the taa: A connected pronoun, built on dammah, in the position of a nominative subject.

And the noon: The marker of the feminine plural.

And "the female student": An object in the accusative case, and its marker of accusative is the visible fathah on its end.
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