State set

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The Arabic state sentence provides information about the state or location of a fellow player ; it describes the background to the previously described action.

The state sentence is connected asyndetically if it begins with a verb. Otherwise it has the structure { wa- - subject - predicate}.

Examples

  • aqbalū wa-ġamāmatun tuẓilluhu - "They came up and a cloud shaded him."
  • daḫala yaḍḥaku - "He came in laughing."

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