Egyptian Arabic Lesson 2Are you a student?

Vocabulary Greetings and Politeness

good morning

good morning (response)

good evening

good evening (response)

good-bye

good-bye (optional response)

how?

How are you? (to m/f )

Praise be to God.

abaa ilxeer

abaa innuur

masaa ilxeer

masaa innuur

maca ssalaama

allaah yisallimak (-ik)

izzaay

izzayyak? izzayyik?

ilamdu lillaah

six

seven

eight

nine

ten

sitta

sabca

tamanya

tisca

caara

Numbers

Beirut

street (s/pl)

city (s/pl)

state (s/pl)

capital (s/pl)

country (s/pl)

beruut

aaric awaaric

madiina mudun

wilaaya wilayaat

caaima cawaaim

balad bilaad

Places and Place Nouns

()

() ()

like

where?

living (m/f )

in

good (m/f )

nice, pretty (m/f )

or

very

zayy

feen?

saakin (sakna)

fi

kuwayyis (kuwayyisa)

ilu (ilwa)

walla

awi

Other words Expression

like a deaf man at a wedding(totally out of it, unaware of what is going on)

zayy ilara fi zzaffa

Dialogue Assignment1. Work with another student and perform the following dialogue in Arabic.

John: Hello.Nadya: Hello.John: Im John. Who are you?Nadya: Im Nadya.John: Pleased to meet you. How are you?Nadya: Fine, Praise God.John: Are you a student?Nadya: No, Im not a student. Im a professor.John: Are you from America?Nadya: No, Im from Egypt. Where are you from?John: Im from the state of Texas. Do you know George?Nadya: No, I dont know George. Do you know where Sally is from?John: Yes. I know. Sally is from the city of New York.Nadya: Goodbye.John: Goodbye.

2. With a partner, create of short dialogue of your own, and practice performing it. BE CREATIVE!

Drills1. Make the following sentences negative. Example: inta min pasadeena. > inta mi min pasadeena.

Linda min beruut.

huwwa kuwayyis.

ana min kaliforniya.

hiyya sakna fi boston.

2. Answer the following questions with no and a full negative sentence followed by a positive sentence. For example: huwwa min ohio? > la, huwwa mi min ohio, huwwa min indiana.

inta min mar?

Linda kuwayyisa?

George mineen? min koloraado?

Karim saakin feen? saakin fi iskandariyya?

madiinit salt leek fi arizoona?

madiinit beruut fi amriika?

3. Practice counting from one to ten aloud in Arabic. Practice 5 times with a partner. For example:

You: waaidPartner: itneenYou: talaataetc.

Fua section1. Fua or caamiyya? ( or )

2. Fua listening online.

/

al-qaahira

kayfa laal?

kayfa aaluka?

jayyid / asan

ayna

nacam

aw

mar

izzayy ilaal

izzayyak

kuwayyis

feen

aywa

walla

Fua: caamiyya:

Note that the capital of Egypt, Cairo, is normally called mar Egypt in colloquial, following an ancient semitic tradition of calling the capital the name of the country. e word for Cairo, al-qaahira, is normally restricted to Standard Arabic con-texts. mar is pronounced mir in fua.

EA 2 Language Notes

1. More on Equational SentencesEquational sentences have two parts: the subject and the predicate. e subject will be a noun, pronoun, or demonstrative. Itis what the sentence is talking about. e predicate can be another noun, an adjective, an adverb, or a prepositional phrase. Ifit is an adjective, it will agree in gender with the subject. For example:

huwwaHe

hiyyaShe

JohnJohn

LindaLinda

is

is

is

is

min beruut.from Beirut.

Jane.Jane.

kuwayyis.good.

kuwayyisa.good.

2. Forming a Question with Equational SentencesTo make an equational sentence into a question, the easiest thing to do is to leave the sentence the same and simply add rising intonation at the end of the sentence. In English we have the rising intonation, but we also often reverse the order of the verb and the subject:

3. Negation of Equational SentencesEquational sentences are negated with the particle mi not. is is true whether the predicate is a noun, adjective, adverb, orprepositional phrase:

(prepositional phrase)

(noun)

(adjective/m)

(adjective/f )

intaYou

inta(Are) you

arekuwayyis.

good.

kuwayyis?good?

huwwaHe

intiYou

anaI

is

are

am

minot

minot

minot

min beruut.from Beirut.

Jane.Jane.

kuwayyis.well.

4. Two Nouns Together: the Possessive Iaafa ConstructArabic does not have a preposition that means of. Instead, there is a construction in which two nouns are simply put together, with the definite article left off the first one. is construction is called the Iaafa Construction. e meaning is usuallyNoun 1 of Noun 2. If the first noun is feminine (ends in -a), the -a must be pronounced -it. For example:

madiinit(the) city

wilaayit(the) state

kitaab(the) book

of

of

of

beruutBeirut

koloraadoColorado

ilustaazthe professor