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Complex Sentences & Syntax

Connectors, conditionals, relative clauses and the syntax of complex sentences.
إِنْ
if
in
Conditional particle taking the jussive
إِنْ تَدْرُسْ تَنْجَحْ
if you study you succeed
in tadrus tanjah
Both verbs in the jussive
مَنْ
whoever
man
A conditional noun
مَا
whatever
maa
A conditional noun
لَوْ
if (hypothetical)
law
A counterfactual condition
لَوْ دَرَسَ لَنَجَحَ
had he studied he would have passed
law darasa lanajaha
A past unreal condition
الَّتِي
who/which (f)
allatii
Relative pronoun, feminine
الَّذِينَ
who (m pl)
alladhiina
Relative pronoun, plural
مَا الَّذِي
what is it that
maa alladhii
An emphatic relative question
حَيْثُ
where
haythu
A place-relation connector