Questions & Answers about اذا ظل وجع الركبة، لازم اعمل فحص عند الدكتور.
How would a Levantine speaker usually pronounce this sentence?
A common pronunciation would be:
iza ḍall wajaʿ ir-rikbe, lāzem aʿmel faḥṣ ʿind id-doktor.
A few helpful notes:
- إذا is usually pronounced iza
- الركبة becomes ir-rikbe because ر is a sun letter, so the l of الـ assimilates
- الدكتور becomes id-doktor for the same reason
- اعمل is often pronounced aʿmel
You may also hear small regional differences in vowels and in how strongly people pronounce ḍ / ظ.
What does إذا do in this sentence?
إذا means if and introduces a condition.
So the sentence has two parts:
- إذا ظل وجع الركبة = the condition
- لازم اعمل فحص عند الدكتور = the result / what should happen if that condition is true
This is very common Arabic sentence structure for if X, then Y.
Why is ظل used here? Doesn’t that look like a past-tense verb?