Arabic vocabulary
وَمَنْ is how you say “and whoever” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَسَادٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَكَأَنَّمَا قَتَلَ النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا وَمَنْ أَحْيَاهَا فَكَأَنَّمَا أَحْيَا النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا
Corruption in the earth, so as if he killed the people entirely, and whoever revived it, so as if he revived the people entirely.
وَمَنْ — and whoever. This fronts wa- 'and' onto the conditional relative 'whoever', opening the parallel positive rule - 'and whoever revived it...'. The wa- balances this against the killing clause, and the 'whoever' is again general. It governs the following verb in the condition, setting up the mirror-image consequence.
From: The Gravity of Murder →OpenArabic teaches words like وَمَنْ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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