inshallah
Expressing the speaker’s wish for a given future event to occur, and also generally…Expressing the speaker’s wish for a given future event to occur, and also generally their emphasis on its contingency upon the divine will.
» Inshallah, soon we'll be home.
So Gott will, sind wir bald zu Hause.
Meaning
2 sensesExpressing the speaker’s wish for a given future event to occur, and also generally their emphasis on its contingency upon the divine will.
We will sign the contract tomorrow, inshallah.
Inschallah, so Gott will
иншалла́хinšalláx, иншаалла́хinšaalláx
(colloquial, sarcastic)Expressing a skeptical affirmative, to indicate the unlikeliness of events, as if they need a divine intervention to come about.
Examples
1 sentencesInshallah, soon we'll be home.
deSo Gott will, sind wir bald zu Hause. — Waldelfe
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
Borrowed from Arabic إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللَٰه (ʔin šāʔa llāh, literally “if God has willed [it]”)Borrowed from Arabic إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللَٰه (ʔin šāʔa llāh, literally “if God has willed [it]”).
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