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Types of "ما" - Coggle Diagram
Types of "ما"
ما الاستفهامية
(ما interrogative)
What?
+
prepositions
shortened to (مَ)
بِمَ؟
مِمَّ؟
إلامَ؟
عمَّ؟
لِمَ؟
عَلامَ؟
ما الموصولة
(relative ما)
What? Whatever?
normally has a resumptive pronoun that refers back to it
يوجد لدينا كل ما تحتاجون إليه من أصناف الأكل
the subject pronoun ي on the verb يشرح
لم أجد ما يشرح هذا الدرس في اليوتيوب
to recognize relative "ma", look for the relative clause it heads by looking for a new clause (جملة فعلية أو جملة إسمية)
often occurs
with quantifiers
such as كل and بعض
everything that/ some of what, etc.
it may combine with من to mean what in the way of , or the....that
everything you have in the way of files
كل ما لديك من ملفات
ما الشرطيّة
(conditional ما)
ًWhatever
ما تفعلوا, نفعل whatever you all do,I'll do
ما التعجُّبية
(exclamatory ما)
What made X so!
ما أعدل حكمه!
How ....it is!
ما الإبهاميّة
(non-specific ما)
some, some...or other
it always follow an indefinite noun
some day يوما ما
حكومةً ما some government or other