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. A still further weakening of the indefinite use of is the combination, ,  (just like the Syriac ); cf. , and,  , nothing whatever.—On , anything at all (usually with a negative), and as an adverb in any way, , see the Lexicon.

Cf. Philippi, ''Stat. constr.'' (see heading of § 89), p. 71 f., and especially V. Baumann,, Leipzig, 1894.

Relative clauses are most frequently (but not necessarily; cf. ) introduced by the indeclinable (see § 36). This is not, however, a relative pronoun in the Greek, Latin, or English sense, nor is it a mere nota relationis, but an original demonstrative pronoun [as though iste, istius, &c.]. Hence it is used—

(1) In immediate dependence on the substantival idea to be defined, and virtually in the same case as it (hence belonging syntactically to the main clause); e.g. ... ... he shall send, &c. (= who took me); and God finished  (it). Such qualifying clauses may be called dependent relative clauses.

Rem. 1. In the above examples in  is virtually in the nominative, in  in the accusative. A further distinction between the examples is that in the main idea, to which  is added in apposition, is only resumed in the qualifying clause by the subject (he) inherent in