اللي

• ياللي‎ (yalli) (see usage notes below)

From or related to Arabic اَلَّذِي‎ (allaḏī) and اَلَّتِي‎ (allatī).

اللي • (lli, illi)

1. (relative) who; whom; which; that; what

   ‏هيدا المستشفى اللي بتشتغل إمي فيه‎

   Hayda l-mistašfa lli btištaḡil ʾimmi fīh.

   This is the hospital in which my mother works.

• In some phonetic environments, particularly in fast speech, the pronoun may be contracted to just -ll- or -l-.
• The variant ياللي‎ (yalli) can be used interchangeably, but it occurs most often when used without an antecedent, that is in the senses “he who”, “that which”, etc.:

‏فيك تقول ياللي بدك‎

Fīk-i tʾūl yalli baddak.

You can say what you want.

From or related to Arabic اَلَّذِي‎ (allaḏī) and Arabic اَلَّتِي‎ (allatī).

• IPA^(key): /lli/, [ˈ(ɪ)l.li]

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اللي • (illi, lli)

1. (relative) who; whom; which; that

   ‏البنت اللي شفتها مبارح بتشتغل معي.‎‎

   il-bint illi šuft-ha mbāreḥ btištḡel maʕi

   The girl I saw yesterday works with me.

   (literally, “The girl that I saw her yesterday works with me.”)

2. the person who, whoever; that which, whatever (at the beginning of a sentence)

• When referring back to a noun, which is the object of the verb that follows, a suffix pronoun should be added to that verb.
• اللي (illi) is used referring to a definite noun, but usually omitted if the noun is indefinite.