Breakdown of انتهى الحصار الإقليمي بعد الترسيم.
الal
the
بعدba'da
after
انتهىintahâ
to finish
حصارhisâr
blockade, siege
إقليميiqlîmî
regional, territorial
ترسيمtarsîm
demarcation, mapping
Questions & Answers about انتهى الحصار الإقليمي بعد الترسيم.
This sentence uses الإقليمي (regional). How would we change the phrase to mean 'the semi-regional blockade' using the current lesson's focus on شبه?
To say 'the semi-regional blockade', you would use an Idafa construction with شبه. The phrase becomes الحصار شبه الإقليمي. Even though شبه acts like a prefix meaning 'semi-', it technically forms an Idafa with the adjective. Since the whole phrase modifies a definite noun (الحصار), the second part of this adjective Idafa (الإقليمي) takes the definite article, while شبه remains without it.
Why is the verb انتهى (ended) used here instead of the Form I root verb نهى?
The Form I verb نهى is transitive and means 'to forbid' or 'to command someone to stop'. The Form VIII verb انتهى is intransitive and means 'to come to an end' or 'to finish'. Since the blockade is ending on its own grammatically in this sentence, rather than an active subject stopping something else, the Form VIII version is required.
Both حصار (blockade) and ترسيم (demarcation) are masdars (verbal nouns). What verb forms do they belong to?
حصار is a Form III masdar from the root ح ص ر (to surround or besiege), following the فِعال pattern. ترسيم is a Form II masdar from the root ر س م (to draw or trace), following the standard تفعيل pattern used for creating Form II verbal nouns.
If we were to pronounce the full case endings for the last two words, بعد الترسيم, what would they be and why?
It would be pronounced بعدَ الترسيمِ (baʿda t-tarsīmi). The word بعد acts as a preposition of time here and forms the first part of an Idafa (mudaf), so its end is fixed with a fatha. The word الترسيم is the second part of the Idafa (mudaf ilayhi), so it must take the genitive case, which is indicated by the kasra.
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