Breakdown of كل شركة خاضعة لعملية تدقيق، سواء وافقت أم رفضت.
أمam
or (in questions)
شركةsharika
company
كلkull
all / every
رفضrafada
to refuse
Questions & Answers about كل شركة خاضعة لعملية تدقيق، سواء وافقت أم رفضت.
Why do we use أم here instead of أو for 'or'?
In the structure سواء ... أم (whether... or), أم is specifically used for alternative options in a question or an inclusive conditional like this one. While you will sometimes see people use أو colloquially, أم is the strict standard choice when presenting mutually exclusive alternatives after سواء.
Why are the verbs وافقت (agreed) and رفضت (refused) in the past tense if this is a general statement?
After سواء (whether), Arabic typically uses the past tense to express a hypothetical or conditional action, even if the meaning applies to the present or future. It works just like the conditional word إن (if), which is also traditionally followed by past-tense verbs.
Why does خاضعة take the preposition لـ?
The active participle خاضعة (subject to / submissive) comes from the verb خضع (to submit or yield). Both the verb and its active participle always pair with the preposition لـ to show what the subject is yielding to.
Why is خاضعة feminine when the sentence starts with the word كل?
When كل (every) is followed by a singular noun in an Idafa construction, the grammatical gender of the overall phrase is determined by that second noun. Since شركة (company) is feminine, the predicate describing it, خاضعة, must also be feminine.