Arabic vocabulary
How to say “doer” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
والمتدفق المطلوع لفعل الفاعل
And "mutadaffiq" is attributed to the action of the doer.
الفَاعِلِ — the doer. An active participle made definite by al-, 'the doer / agent', the owning second noun of 'the action of the doer', hence the genitive. This is the grammatical term for the one who performs the action, the fa'il.
From: Creating Life from Nothing →والدافق قيل إنه فاعل بمعنى مفعول كقولهم سر كاتم وعيشة راضية
And it is said that "dafiq" is an active participle with the meaning of a passive, like their saying "sir katim" and "ʿīsha rāḍiya."
فَاعِلٌ — active participle. The grammatical term 'active participle' (the fa'il form), here an indefinite predicate: 'it is an active participle'. The claim is that this word has the form of a doer-noun even though, as the next words say, it carries a passive sense.
From: Creating Life from Nothing →وقيل وهو الصواب إنه اسم فاعل على بابه
And it is said, and this is correct, that it is an active participle in its original sense.
فَاعِلٍ — participle. An active participle 'doer' in the genitive, the owned second noun of 'noun of the doer'. Together the pairing is the technical name for the fa'il form; here it completes 'it is an active participle'.
From: Creating Life from Nothing →ولا يلزم من ذلك أن يكون هو فاعل الدفق
And it is not required that he be the performer of the pouring.
فَاعِلَ — the performer. An agent noun 'doer of' in the object-style ending because it is the predicate of the 'to be' verb, which puts its predicate into the accusative-style ending. It heads a possessive pairing with 'the pouring' after it: 'the doer of the pouring'.
From: Creating Life from Nothing →فإن اسم الفاعل هو من قام به الفعل سواء فعله هو أو غيره
For an active participle is one by whom the action is carried out, whether he performed it himself or someone else did.
الفَاعِلِ — of the active. An active participle 'the doer' made definite by al-, the owned second noun of 'noun of the doer', in the genitive. The pairing is the technical name for the fa'il form being defined.
From: Creating Life from Nothing →OpenArabic teaches words like فاعل through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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