Arabic vocabulary
How to say “if” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
لَئِن أدركتهم لأقتلنهم قتل عَاد
If I were to encounter them, I would surely kill them like the killing of Aad.
لَئِنْ — if. This word fuses an emphatic opening particle with the condition word 'if', a combination that primes the sentence for a strong oath-like answer. It sets up 'if indeed...', leading to the emphatic vow that follows.
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