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Passive Letter لِ Command Stateless لِتُفْعَلْ She/It S/F

Front لِتُفْعَلْ
Back She/It (S/F) must be done! / [You] Be done! (S/M)
Back2 Passive (1st letter excl. ل becomes ضَمَّة and 2nd last letter becomes فَتْحَة) I.e. compared to active version
Back3 لِ at start make it into a command. Derived from passive form present tense verb in Jazm جَزْم . For example, ( يَفْعَلُhe does) becomes ( لِيَفْعَلْhe must do!).
Back4 Passive voice conjugations of the command reflect the person,
gender, and plurality of the object of the command. For example, لِيُفْعَلُوْا
means, “they (e.g., those tasks) must be done!”
Back5 مَبْنِي stateless – لِ causes word to become stateless

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