ما

(Engels)

Pron

1. (interrogative) what?
2. (indefinite) some, a certain
3. (relative) that which, what
4. whichever; whatever

Particle

not; never

Conj

1. as long as
2. A subordinating conjunction following particles or genitival nouns in conditional statements, known as مَا الزَّائِدَة (mā z-zāʔida), 'superfluous mā'
3. loosely translates to that; introduces a verbal complement to a preposition, standing in place of the definite verbal noun

Adv

1. whenever
2. as far as, to the extent that, to the degree that
3. (oh) how...!

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/maː/

Etimologie (Engels)

Cognate with Hebrew מָה (ma) and Ugaritic 𐎎𐎅 (mh).

Sinonieme

ماذا

mā

لا

🙅

لم

🚫

Vertalings

what

was

ne

que

co

qué

che

quid

no

🚫

not

🚫

δε

that

some

which

ein

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