إذا حاولت مرة أخرى، فربما تنجح هذه المرة.

إذا introduces a condition, so it means if in the sense of if/when this happens.

In this sentence:

• إذا حاولت مرة أخرى = If you try again

A useful point for learners is that إذا often introduces a condition that is seen as realistic or possible. It is very common in everyday and formal Arabic.

This is one of the most common questions learners have.

After إذا, Arabic very often uses a past-tense form even when the meaning is about the future. So:

• إذا حاولت literally looks like if you tried
• but in actual meaning here it is if you try

This is normal Arabic usage in conditional sentences. English and Arabic handle these structures differently, so it is best to learn this as a pattern:

• إذا + past form → often refers to a future condition

So the sentence is completely natural even though the English translation uses a present form.

By itself, حاولت can be ambiguous in unvowelled Arabic writing:

• حاولتُ = I tried
• حاولتَ = you tried (masculine singular)
• حاولتِ = you tried (feminine singular)

Without case/mood vowels written, the form حاولت can represent any of these in writing.

We know it means you here because of the next verb:

• تنجح can mean you succeed or she succeeds
• in this context, it matches the meaning if you try again, perhaps you will succeed

So context tells us that حاولت is you tried / you try here, not I tried.

Because Arabic verbs usually include the subject inside the verb itself.

For example:

• حاولت already contains the meaning of you here
• تنجح also already contains the meaning of you

Arabic often omits subject pronouns like أنت unless there is a reason to emphasize or clarify them.

So instead of saying:

• إذا أنت حاولت...

Arabic naturally says:

• إذا حاولت...

This is much more normal.

Yes, مرة أخرى is a very common way to say again or one more time.

Literally:

• مرة = time / occasion / once
• أخرى = other / another

So together:

• مرة أخرى = another time, meaning again

This is a standard expression in Modern Standard Arabic.

Other ways to express again exist, but مرة أخرى is very common and easy to use.

The فـ here is often called فاء الجواب or the fa of the result/apodosis in a conditional sentence.

It links the condition to the result:

• إذا حاولت مرة أخرى = If you try again
• فربما تنجح هذه المرة = then perhaps you’ll succeed this time

In English, we often do not need an extra word, but Arabic often uses فـ very naturally before the result part of the sentence, especially when that result begins with words like:

• ربما
• قد
• لن
• a nominal sentence
• a command, etc.

So here the فـ means something like then / in that case.

ربما means perhaps, maybe, or possibly.

It shows possibility, not certainty. In this sentence:

• فربما تنجح = then perhaps you’ll succeed

It is softer than a definite statement like:

• فستنجح = then you will succeed

So ربما is useful when the speaker wants to encourage someone without guaranteeing the result.

Because ربما commonly comes before a present-tense verb to express possibility.

So:

• ربما تنجح = perhaps you will succeed / perhaps you succeed

In English, we usually translate this with will because the context is future, but Arabic does not need a separate future marker here.

The future meaning comes from the whole sentence:

• the condition is about what happens next
• ربما adds possibility
• therefore تنجح is naturally understood as future

Formally, تنجح can mean either:

• you succeed (2nd person masculine singular)
• she succeeds (3rd person feminine singular)

Arabic present-tense forms sometimes overlap like this in unvowelled writing.

In this sentence, the meaning is clearly you succeed, because the whole sentence is addressing someone directly:

• If you try again, perhaps you’ll succeed this time

So again, context resolves the ambiguity.

هذه المرة means this time.

Literally:

• هذه = this (feminine singular)
• المرة = the time / the occasion

Arabic demonstratives usually come before the noun:

• هذه المرة = this time
• compare English: this time

Also, مرة is a feminine noun, so the demonstrative must be feminine:

• هذه, not هذا

Because مرة by itself means a time / one time / an occasion, while هذه المرة means this time specifically.

So the sentence contrasts:

• مرة أخرى = again / another time
• هذه المرة = this time

This gives the sentence a nice rhetorical balance:

• If you try again, then perhaps you’ll succeed this time

They are similar, but not always identical.

A simple learner-friendly distinction is:

• إذا often introduces a condition seen as realistic, expected, or neutral
• إنْ can sound more uncertain or more purely conditional

In many contexts both can be translated as if, but they are not always interchangeable in tone and usage.

For this sentence, إذا حاولت مرة أخرى sounds very natural because the speaker is talking about a realistic possibility.

Yes, Arabic could use a future marker in some contexts, but ربما تنجح is already natural and clear.

Compare:

• فربما تنجح هذه المرة = then perhaps you’ll succeed this time
• فربما ستنجح هذه المرة = much less standard/natural in careful MSA

After ربما, the simple present form is typically preferred. The future sense is understood from context, so تنجح works well on its own.

The comma is just punctuation separating the conditional clause from the result clause:

• إذا حاولت مرة أخرى، فربما تنجح هذه المرة.

It helps reading, but the grammar does not depend on the comma itself. The real grammatical signals are:

• إذا for the condition
• فـ for the result

So even without the comma, the sentence structure would still be understandable.

It follows a very common Arabic pattern:

• إذا + verb ... ، ف + result clause

Here that becomes:

1. إذا حاولت مرة أخرى
   = If you try again

2. فربما تنجح هذه المرة
   = then perhaps you’ll succeed this time

This is a very useful pattern to recognize and reuse in your own Arabic.