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intermediate egyptian arabic
Hi! I think your site is great! I wish I found it before.
At the moment, I am looking for materials at a more intermediate / advanced level. I know the basics of Egyptian colloquial now (well, sort of...) and would like to learn how to make more complicated sentences. For example, how would I translate a sentence like "The man sitting in the chair, has left" Woul it be "el rajl illi kan u'ud fi kursi, masha"? Or, for example "When I was studying in university, I used to work as a waitress" is it "Iza kunte darasa fi jami3a, shagalte zay "waitress (don't know how to translate waitress;)"? Basically, I am confused aout the proper form of the verbs to use. Also, I am looking for a way to learn more vocablary, because my conversations normally get stuck because I don't know so many words.
Hope you can help, Bye, Saskia
Thanks!!Hi Mohamed,
Thank you and nice to meet you!
So it is "lamma" for sentences in the past, and "iza" is then used for the present or conditional sentences? And could you use "law" for past conditional sentences, or only in the present?
I would never have fiured that past continues form with the b-prefix: kunte b-drus, kunte b-tstagl... I learnt dialect in Sudan, mostly, where people speak similar to Egyptian, yet quite different.
Thanks again, and I really think this site is a fantastic initiative!
shukran, ma' salama,
Saskia
By student at Mon, 2009-03-09 08:05 | reply |
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Welcome to ArEg Saskia, and
Welcome to ArEg Saskia, and thanks for the positive feedback!
I will first tell you how to say those 2 phrases, (btw, your Egyptian is pretty advanced ):
"the man _who was_ sitting in the chair, has left" would be:
, "when [i] was studying in the uni, [I] was working [as a] waiteress" would be
the text in curely brackets is not present in the egyptian text.
You have a point, till now, ArEg is accustomed for the very beginners in Arabic and Egyptian. However, please keep visiting, we are working on new content for the intermediate and advanced, as well as creative way for learning vocabulary.
see you!
Mohamed