اس سے پہلے کہ
Before a Possible Event
The clause after کہ supplies the later boundary.
How It Works
The boundary clause can have its own subject: دکان بند ہو. The main request addresses the listener, so the two clauses need not describe one person’s actions.
Keep the full clause after کہ. Compare دکان بند ہونے سے پہلے, which packages the closing as an infinitive phrase instead.
In a prospective instruction, the later event has not yet been asserted as fact. Choose the main clause’s time independently: it may be a request or a plan.
Examples (4)
- اس سے پہلے کہ دکان بند ہو، اندر چلیے۔
Go inside before the shop closes.
The shop’s closing is the later boundary.
- اس سے پہلے کہ مہمان آئیں، ہم کمرہ صاف کریں گے۔
We will clean the room before the guests arrive.
The boundary clause has a plural subject.
- اس سے پہلے کہ چائے ٹھنڈی ہو، پی لیجیے۔
Please drink the tea before it gets cold.
The anticipated change uses ہو.
- اس سے پہلے کہ تم نکلو، مجھے بتا دو۔
Tell me before you leave.
Familiar تم selects نکلو in the boundary clause.
How It Connects
Learn This First
Understand the before relation. Express an event that has not yet occurred as a subjunctive clause.
Related Patterns
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