وصل القنصل عثمان من مدريد.wasala al-qunsulu othmânu min madrîd
The consul Othman arrived from Madrid.
Questions & Answers about وصل القنصل عثمان من مدريد.
Why does مدريد end with a fatha instead of a kasra, even though it comes after the preposition من?
Why doesn't the name عثمان take tanween (nunation) at the end?
Why is عثمان in the nominative case here?
The word عثمان acts as an apposition, or substitute, for القنصل. Since القنصل is the subject of the verb وصل and is in the nominative case, the name عثمان copies its case to match.
Since القنصل comes from a foreign word, why isn't it treated as a diptote like مدريد?
The diptote rules being practiced here specifically apply to proper nouns (names of specific people or places). Even though القنصل is an Arabized loanword meaning consul, it is a common noun, so it behaves like a normal Arabic word and can take regular case endings and the definite article.