Breakdown of ازداد هذا المطعم الراقي شهرة.
الal
the
هذاhâdhâ
this (m)
مطعمmat'am
restaurant
ازدادizdâda
to increase
شهرةshuhra
fame
راقيrâqî
upscale
Questions & Answers about ازداد هذا المطعم الراقي شهرة.
Why is the word for fame (شهرة) in the accusative case?
It functions as a Tamyiz (accusative of specification). After verbs meaning 'to increase', 'to decrease', or 'to be full' like ازداد, Arabic uses an indefinite accusative noun to specify in what way the subject increased. Here, the restaurant increased specifically 'in fame'.
Why use the Form VIII verb ازداد here instead of the Form I verb زاد?
While both mean 'to increase', the Form I verb زاد can be transitive (meaning to increase something else) or intransitive. The Form VIII verb ازداد is strictly intransitive, focusing on the subject itself undergoing the change. It is the natural choice when saying a subject grew in a certain quality.
Since المطعم is the subject, does the adjective الراقي also take a nominative case ending?
Grammatically yes, but it is invisible in pronunciation. الراقي is a defective word because it ends in a long 'ī' sound. In the nominative and genitive cases, the vowel ending is dropped for ease of pronunciation, so you say 'al-rāqī' instead of 'al-rāqiyu'.
Why does the sentence use هذا المطعم instead of just هذا مطعم?
When a demonstrative pronoun like هذا is followed by a definite noun (with ال), they form a single phrase meaning 'this restaurant'. If you dropped the ال to make it هذا مطعم, it would create a full sentence meaning 'This is a restaurant', leaving the verb without a proper subject phrase.
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