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 tabernacle was reared up;  ;, , , , ; with a negative, e.g.  ; with the accusative of the personal pronoun, e.g.  ; , ; with a verbal suffix, e.g.  ;   (on the suffix, cf. c). In the object even precedes the infinitive with ; on this order cf. the note on .—If the verb governs a double accusative, the infinitive may also take the same, e.g. ;.

Rem. 1. The object after the infinitive construct must also always be regarded as in the accusative, even when it is not expressly introduced (as inall the above examples) by the, and when therefore the substantive in question might easily be taken as the genitive of the object governed by the infinitive (the usual construction in Arabic), e.g.  . Against regarding it as a genitive, which is in itself possible (the doing, the executing of judgement), is the fact (a) that elsewhere the  is so frequently added; (b) that in such a case the secondary forms of the infinitive, such as  for    (cf. , ), would be unintelligible; (c) that certain infinitive forms, if they were to be regarded as in the construct state, could hardly retain the pretonic Qameṣ without exception, whereas, when connected with suffixes (i.e. with real genitives; cf. ), this Qameṣ necessarily becomes ; e.g.   (never as ; cf., on the other hand, above, ); ,. Similarly in such cases as  instead of  we should rather expect, if the infinitive were regarded as in the construct state, and  as the genitive. Hence also in cases like ( for ) we must assume, with Sellin, op. cit., p. 78, a merely ‘external phonetic connexion’ and not the genitive construction.

2. The verbal suffixes added to the infinitive are (with the exception of ) only the suffix of the 1st pers. sing. (besides the above examples cf. also, , , , , &c.) and plural; e.g. , (immediately after , so that  is doubtless a  not a noun-suffix, although in form it might be either);  ,  (after ). Elsewhere the pronominal object is appended either by means of the accusative sign (e.g.  prop. in the bearing them;, ) or in the form of a noun-suffix (as genitive of the object). The latter occurs almost always, whenever the context excludes the possibility of a misunderstanding; e.g.  (prop. for his smiting) to smite him, not, as the form might also mean, in order that he might smite; cf. ; with the suffix of the 3rd sing. fem. ; of the 3rd plur. ,, &c. Hence also the suffixes of the 2nd sing. with the infinitive, as, cf. , and even, , must certainly be regarded as nominal not suffixes. The connexion of the noun-suffix, as genitive of the object, with the infinitive,