Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books A Hundred and One Rules in Arabic Grammar! أن ====== The most common subjunctive particle in Arabic is probably أنْ, which usually sits between two verbs referring to the same or a different person, and thus, functioning something like the infinitive in English. If you examine the sentence carefully, you will notice that أنْ introduces a subordinate clause which functions as an object for the main verb.
**اُريدُ أنْ أذهَبَ إلی المصرفِ.** I want to go to the bank. 82. It has been mentioned earlier that ما can be used as a question word and as a negation particle for the verb in past tense. In addition, it can be used to be as a part of a nominalizer as in: **قابلتـَهَ عندما سَکنَ في هذا البَيتِ.** I met him when he lived in this house. Previous Next