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Egyptian Arabic Lesson 15

My throat hurts!Vocabulary

restcold

medicine

to cough

to hurt

headache

diarrhea

constipation

u

clinic

doctor (medical)

nurse

hospital

hospitals

to cure, heal

to recover (from illness)

to treat

Ill write you a pre-scription

body

beaten up

broken

severe, strong

accident

whats wrong with you?

dizzy

temperature

degree

raaabard

dawa

ka yiku

wagac yiwgac

udaac

ishaal

imsaak

inluwanza

ciyaada ciyadaat

abiib aibbaa

mumarria

mustafa

mustafayaat

afa yi

xa yixi

caalig yicaalig

aktiblak dawa

gism agsaam

mikassar

maksuur

gaamid

adsa awaadis

maalak?

daayix

araara

daraga daragaat

Other Health Words

+

( )

to appear

because (+pronoun)

except

patience

bed

mustache

beard

to shave, get a haircut

barber

blessed! (said after

haircut, shave, bath)

God bless you(response)

ahar yihar

al

geer

abr

siriir

anab

dan

ala yila

allaa

naciiman

allaah yinc

amc

aleek

Other Words

Body Parts

) (

( )

headthroat

eye

stomach

leg, foot

heart

brain

tooth

tongue

nose

hair

ear

chest, breast

raaszoor

ceen cuyuun (cineen)

ban

rigl (rigleen)

alb uluub

dimaa

sinna sinaan

lisaan lisina

manaxiir

acr

widn widaan

adr uduur

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5. Change to past imperfect, adding enough of a context to make a full sentence, and translate the resulting sentence into English.Example: Prompt: . Answer: . I was eating cheese when I saw him.

Old Lesson Review

8. (lesson 8) Negate the following sentences. Notice that dierent types of verbs are negated dierently. Modals and the future tenseuse , while the habitual and plain (no prex) verbs use ... .

7. Active Participles.Create active participles from the following verbs. Guess their meaning in English.

Example: Prompt: Answer: traveler

. .

.

.

.

.

9. (lesson 9) Use the given words to make past tense negative sentences with pronoun endings. Translate your answers.Example: Prompt: him/to see/I Answer: . I didnt see him.

..

.

..

.

6. Translate to Arabic.

I used to drink tea every day.I was reading the Quran when he arrived.She used to study Russian before she married Jim.

We were speaking with the teacher when John left.You used to come here every week. What happened?She was coughing when the doctor came in.

him/to know/I/yetthe girl/to understandto like/meat/we/yet

the books/they/to readto bring/the brain sandwich/she

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EA 15 Language Notes

1. Past ImperfectArabic has only two formal tenses, so to create other eects,helping verbs are used. e present or imperfect tense is used foractivities that are ongoing (continuous) or that happen all the time (habitual), while the past or perfect is used for events thathappened and are over. If you want to refer to something that was either ongoing or habitual in the past, you use the helping

verb with the imperfect. For example:

Some verbs like to love and to know refer to states in the imperfect. In the perfect, however, they mustrefer to events, so they are interpreted as inceptive i.e. coming into the state meaning something like fell in love with or foundout as in the examples below. If you want these verbs to mean a past state, you must use the past imperfect using a form of

. Examples:

I wrote a letter to my father.

I was writing a letter to my father when he entered.

I was trying to get in touch with you.

I used to write a letter to my father once a week.

. .

. .

I love Maha.

I fell in love with Maha.

I loved Maha.

I know his name.

I found out his name.

I knew his name.

.

.

. .

.

.

2. Past Perfect.e verb is also used with another past tense verb to mean past perfect something that happened before some otherevent in the past. In English we express this with phrases like he had gone. For example, the following sentence from the textis in past perfect.

I had gone out for awhile..

Other examples:

I had eaten beakfast when I saw you.

He had nished the test before he left.

. .

3. Body PartsMost words in Arabic are masculine and feminine based on whether or not they end in a taa marbuua. However, some wordswhich do not end in a taa marbuua are feminine anyway, like names of cities and some countries. Likewise, body parts thatcome in pairs are feminine. is means that head is masculine,but eye and leg are feminine. us:

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My head hurts (me).

My leg hurts (me).

.

.

4. Using somee word , like the word , is almost always the rst term of an iaafa. is means that it rarely would take the denitearticle. For example: some of the students, some of the lm, and some of them. In colloquial,the word is often used where might be used in Fusha. Other examples:

Some of the students went to the cinema.

I saw some of you in the park.

I read some of the book this morning.

.

. .

5. Derived Form Active Participles

We learned earlier that Form I active participles of sound verbs follow the patterns FaaMiL. e derived forms (II X) allform the active participle by adding the prex mi- or sometimes mu - to the imperfect stem: yi-darris --> mi-darris/ mu-darris. Here are a few examples of derived form participles:

6. Form X verbHere is the complete conjugation of a typical form X verb.

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Imperative PronounPerfectPlain Imperfectbi- Imperfecta- Imperfect

istarab

istarabi

istarabu

huwwa

hiyya

inta

inti

ana

humma

intu

ina

istarab

istarabit

istarabt

istarabti

istarabt

istarabu

istarabtu

istarabna

yistarab

tistarab

tistarab

tistarabi

astarab

yistarabu

tistarabu

nistarab

biyistarab

bitistarab

bitistarab

bitistarabi

bastarab

biyistarabu

bitistarabu

binistarab

ayistarab

atistarab

atistarab

atistarabi

astarab

ayistarabu

atistarabu

anistarab

Verbal Noun

Active Participle

istirab

mustarab

Imperative PronounPerfectPlain Imperfectbi- Imperfecta- Imperfect