Transformed Tamyiz from Subject

Here is the magic trick. Usually, you have a sentence where a quality or part of something is the Subject (Fa'il).

* Original: Jamula usloobu al-katibi (The writer's style became beautiful).

* Here, Usloobu (style) is the Subject. The writer is just the possessor (Mudaf Ilayh).

To make it fancier and focus on the Writer instead of the abstract Style, you flip them. You make the Writer the Subject, and move the Style to the end, putting it in the Accusative case (Mansoub).

* Transformed: Jamula al-katibu uslooban (The writer became beautiful... in style).

See what happened? The original Subject (Usloobu) stepped down, put on the Accusative "uniform" (-an), and became a Tamyiz (Specification). The original possessor (al-katibi) got promoted to Subject (al-katibu).

1. 1It's a three-step shuffle:
2. 2Identify the Verb of Change/State: Usually verbs like "increased" (Azdaada), "improved" (Hasuna), "filled" (Imtala'a), or "flared up" (Ishta'ala).
3. 3Promote the Possessor: Take the person or thing that *has* the quality and make them the Subject (Nominative/Marfu').
4. 4Demote the Old Subject: Take the quality (beauty, rage, water, gray hair), move it to the end, and slap a Fatha (or Tanwin Fath) on it to make it Tamyiz.
5. 5Formula:
6. 6Verb + Person/Thing (New Subject) + Aspect (Tamyiz - Mansoub)

Use this when you want to highlight the person or object undergoing the change, rather than the abstract quality itself. It's incredibly common in:

• Poetry and Literature: It sounds smoother and more rhythmic.
• Exaggeration: It implies the quality has taken over the whole person. "My head flared up with gray hair" implies the grayness is everywhere, not just that "gray hair appeared."
• Formal Speech: When you want to sound like you own a mahogany desk and a monocle.

• Simple Reporting: If you just need to state a dry fact like "The price of oil increased," just say Irtafa'a si'ru al-nafti. Converting it to Irtafa'a al-naftu si'ran sounds a bit like poetry in a stock market report. A bit extra, you know?
• With Transitive Verbs (Usually): This specific transformation works best with intransitive verbs (verbs that don't take a direct object).

• The Case Crash: The biggest rookie error is forgetting to make the Tamyiz Mansoub. You can't say Taaba Zaidun nafsun. It MUST be nafsan.
• The Gender Bender: When you change the Subject, the verb must agree with the *new* Subject.

* *Wrong:* Taabat Zaidun nafsan (Female verb for Zaid? No.)

* *Correct:* Taaba Zaidun nafsan.

• Over-defining: Tamyiz is usually indefinite (Nakira). Don't slap an Al- on it unless you have a very weird, specific poetic reason (and even then, grammarians might side-eye you).

• Vs. Tamyiz of Self (Dhat): That's for numbers or weights (Ishtaraytu litran haliban - I bought a liter of milk). That clarifies a vague noun. Our topic today clarifies a vague *sentence relationship*.
• Vs. Hal (State): Hal describes *how* someone is (smiling, running). Tamyiz describes *what* aspect is changing.

* Ja'a Zaidun dahikan (Zaid came laughing) = Hal.

* Taaba Zaidun nafsan (Zaid became pleasant in soul) = Tamyiz.

Q: Can I do this with any sentence?

Not really. It has to make sense that the "aspect" belongs to the "person." You can't say "The car sped up... banana."

Q: Is it optional?

Grammatically? Yes. Stylistically? Sometimes it's the only way to not sound like a robot translation.

Q: Why is it called "Transformed"?

Because archaeologists of grammar dig up the sentence and see that the word used to be a Subject in a previous life. Spooky.