Questions & Answers about لبس الولد قميصا فضفاضا.
Does لبس describe the action of putting the shirt on, or the state of wearing it?
It usually describes the action: "he put on" the shirt. To express the ongoing state of wearing something ("he was wearing"), Arabic often uses the active participle لابس (laabis) rather than the standard past tense verb.
The adjective فضفاضا has a repeating letter pattern. What kind of word is this?
It is built on a reduplicated quadriliteral (four-letter) root: ف ض ف ض (f-d-f-d). Arabic often repeats a two-letter sequence to express something repetitive, expansive, or continuous (like زلزال for earthquake). For clothing, this root conveys the visual idea of fabric being extra wide or billowing.
Why is there an extra alif (ا) added to the end of both قميصا and فضفاضا?
They form the direct object (and its matching adjective), so they take the indefinite accusative case (mansub). Even when reading without short vowel marks, Arabic orthography requires adding an extra ا to carry the indefinite accusative ending (tanwin fatha, pronounced "-an"), unless the word already ends in a taa marbuuta (ة) or a hamza (ء) following an alif.