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Question/notes:
1. What is "لمن"? Seems to correlate with one, person, etc.
2. I was quite surprised by idaffa (phonetic) construction used for "business lawyer." I would have guessed something more like lawyer business with the "business" being an adjective. The idaffa construction suggests to me a "lawyer who belongs to business" (like door of the classroom) which stretches the idaffa construction a bit.
Perhaps someone could comment upon the or clarify the usage. -
@chazyouwin
مَنْ
Can be an interrogative pronoun, meaning - Who?
Or a relative pronoun, meaning - The one who, Whom
لِـ
is a preposition meaning - to, for.
When li is prefixed to man, you get liman. It means - Whose, For whom, To whom
لمن البيت
Whose house is it
لمن يهمّه الأمر
To whom it may concern
But the above meanings of liman do not correlate with the translation of the sentence in the lesson. So, my guess is, li of liman in that sentence comes from the previous phrase حاجة لـ
كان في حاجة إلى / لـ
To be in want of something
And, man of liman in that sentence acts as a relative pronoun.
Hosts may correct me, if I am wrong.
Intermediate - Finding a lawyer
January 12th, 2012 | 1 comment |
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