Arabic-L:LING:ahlan wasahlan

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Date: 25 May 2007
From: "Dr. M Deeb" <muhammaddeeb at gmail.com>
Subject:ahlan wasahlan

> In MSA and spoken Arabic the two adverbs of condition [alhal]  are  
> kept
> for a shorter greeting thus it is in accusative case ending.


Lest there be any misunderstanding, the two accusatives, i.e., /  
*أهلا * / &
/  *سهلا *  / in the Arabic greeting, are not accusatives of  
condition or
circumstance.

They are, as stated correctly in several posts, two direct objects,  
the operatives of which are obligatorily omitted.

*MD

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