Word
الطعام الذي طبخناه لذيذ حاشا مشتقات الصويا.
Meaning
The food that we cooked is delicious excluding the soy derivatives.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of الطعام الذي طبخناه لذيذ حاشا مشتقات الصويا.
الal
the
طعامta'âm
food
لذيذlazîz
delicious
هhu
his / him (object) / it (dummy pronoun after لأن)
Questions & Answers about الطعام الذي طبخناه لذيذ حاشا مشتقات الصويا.
Does حاشا make the word after it genitive or accusative?
Because حاشا appears here bare (without ما before it), it can act as either a preposition assigning the genitive case, or a past tense verb assigning the accusative case. Both are perfectly correct in Modern Standard Arabic.
Since حاشا allows two different cases, which one is applied to مشتقات (mushtaqqāt) here?
It is a trick question: it looks and sounds identical either way! Because مشتقات is a regular feminine plural (ending in ـات), its accusative and genitive cases are both marked with a kasra (an "i" vowel). It will be pronounced مشتقاتِ (mushtaqqāti) whether you treat حاشا as a verb or a preposition.
Why doesn't الصويا (al-ṣūyā) have a genitive kasra since it is the second part of an Idafa (possession structure)?
The word الصويا ends with a long "a" vowel (ا). Words ending in this sound cannot physically take short vowel case markings. Its genitive case is grammatically present but assumed or hidden (muqaddar), so the pronunciation does not change.
Why is there a ـه (hu) suffix on طبخناه (ṭabakhnāhu) if the English translation is just "we cooked"?
In Arabic, a relative clause using الذي (that/which) requires a return pronoun (an 'a'id) referring back to the noun it describes. While English leaves it blank, Arabic requires you to literally say "The food that we cooked it".