لَئِنْ if indeed in Arabic
لَئِنْ is how you say “if indeed” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
ثم قال لئن أنا حييت حتى آكل تمراتي هذه إنها لحياة طويلة
Then he said: 'If I live until I eat my dates, it will indeed be a long life!'
لَئِنْ if
A combination that sets up a strong conditional oath: it bundles an emphatic 'truly' with 'if', priming the listener that a definite consequence will follow if the condition holds. Arabic often pairs this opener with an emphatic ending later in the sentence; English would convey it with 'if indeed...'.
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لَئِنْ جَاءَتْهُمْ آيَةٌ لَيُؤْمِنُنَّ بِهَا
If a sign were to come to them, they would surely believe in it.
لَئِنْ if
This combines an oath-emphasis lead with an 'if', priming a solemn conditional: 'I swear, if...'. It tells the listener a heavily affirmed condition-and-consequence is coming, and it pairs with the emphatic verb later in the sentence.
أَمَّا وَاللَّهِ لَئِنْ مَنَعْتَنِي هَذَا لَأَمْنَعَنَّكَ مَا هُوَ أَشَدُّ عَلَيْكَ مِنْهُ
By God, if you prevent me from this, I will surely prevent you from something that will be harder on you than this.
لَئِنْ if
A real-condition 'if' carrying a hint of emphasis: it opens a genuine hypothetical whose outcome the oath then guarantees. It frames the whole 'if you do X, I will surely do Y' threat.
فَقَعَدَتْ فَقَالَتْ وَاللَّهِ لَئِنْ حَلَفْتُ لَا تُصَدِّقُونَنِي،
She sat down and said, "By God, if I swear, you will not believe me."
لَئِنْ if
A conditional 'if' carrying extra emphatic weight from a built-in stress particle, setting up a vivid 'if I were to...'. It opens the condition whose result comes later ('you will not believe me'), and its emphatic flavour suits the oath just sworn before it.
فَقَالَ تَعَالَىٰ وَلَئِنْ صَبَرْتُمْ لَهْوُ خَيْرٌ لِلصَّابِرِينَ
And Allah, the Most High, said, "If you are patient, that is better for the patient ones."
وَلَئِنْ and if
This stacks wa- 'and' with a conditional opener that, paired with an emphatic la-, sets up 'and if indeed...'. The particle frames the whole next clause as a supposition whose result follows later.