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North Levantine Arabic
Alternative forms
- ياللي (yalli) (see usage notes below)
Etymology
From or related to Arabic اَلَّذِي (allaḏī) and اَلَّتِي (allatī).
Pronoun
اللي • (lli, illi)
- (relative) who; whom; which; that; what
هيدا المستشفى اللي بتشتغل إمي فيه- Hayda l-mistašfa lli btištaḡil ʾimmi fīh.
- This is the hospital in which my mother works.
Usage notes
- In some phonetic environments, particularly in fast speech, the pronoun may be contracted to just -ll- or -l-.
- The variant ياللي (yalli) can be used interchangeably, but it occurs most often when used without an antecedent, that is in the senses “he who”, “that which”, etc.:
فيك تقول ياللي بدك- Fīk-i tʾūl yalli baddak.
- You can say what you want.
South Levantine Arabic
Etymology
From or related to Arabic اَلَّذِي (allaḏī) and Arabic اَلَّتِي (allatī).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
اللي • (illi, lli)
- (relative) who; whom; which; that
البنت اللي شفتها مبارح بتشتغل معي.- il-bint illi šuft-ha mbāreḥ btištḡel maʕi
- The girl I saw yesterday works with me.
- (literally, “The girl that I saw her yesterday works with me.”)
- the person who, whoever; that which, whatever (at the beginning of a sentence)
Usage notes
- When referring back to a noun, which is the object of the verb that follows, a suffix pronoun should be added to that verb.
- اللي (illi) is used referring to a definite noun, but usually omitted if the noun is indefinite.