verbs in arabic

[Uncle O 2]

sounds to me like your hubby is a villager? If so, they have such a different accent..Sometimes its hard for even me to understand and I do very well with arabic

Like the difference between bahbek and some villagers say bahebitch (sorry I know its childish but i think its funny)

am talking about this its funny lol Bahbek -bahebitch .. bedik -beditch

Its always so cute to hear americans try to speak arabic

Actually yeah i agree , its so cute .

[Y's_habibitk 2]

Its always so cute to hear americans try to speak arabic

hee! ya my husband always says: I love "your" arabic. heh heh

Anytime I said ANYTHING in arabic while I was there, everyone would giggle. "Shii" was a favorite lol

[S and S 12]

I spent a year and a half studying formal arabic. I can converse fairly well, with just some occassional grammer mistakes (I will never get arabic grammer down completely, lol). From there I studied Iraqi dialect through my husband and a couple Iraqi women. It works out because I can use the Iraqi words I know and if I don't know the right word then I just say it in formal arabic. Some people laugh, but my husband's family is well educated and all college graduates so they can talk to me in mostly formal arabic. It also comes in handy because I can sit and watch tv and the news and have an idea of what is being said. Formal arabic is also what the Quran is written in so if you want to understand the Quran, then you must learn the formal arabic. Later when I have children I want them to know formal arabic and dialect which means I need to know both. I have met arab kids here who can speak in their home with dialect but have no idea what is being said on Al-Jazeera and cannot read in arabic. I decided after that I prefer my children to be more well rounded. This is me and my opinion, but we all have to decide what is best for us. Arabic is not easy to learn and it may be better for some to just work on basic communication in the family. If ever you get the chance though, a college class or two in formal arabic could really be helpful.

[HLM 1]

I spent a year and a half studying formal arabic. I can converse fairly well, with just some occassional grammer mistakes (I will never get arabic grammer down completely, lol). From there I studied Iraqi dialect through my husband and a couple Iraqi women. It works out because I can use the Iraqi words I know and if I don't know the right word then I just say it in formal arabic. Some people laugh, but my husband's family is well educated and all college graduates so they can talk to me in mostly formal arabic. It also comes in handy because I can sit and watch tv and the news and have an idea of what is being said. Formal arabic is also what the Quran is written in so if you want to understand the Quran, then you must learn the formal arabic. Later when I have children I want them to know formal arabic and dialect which means I need to know both. I have met arab kids here who can speak in their home with dialect but have no idea what is being said on Al-Jazeera and cannot read in arabic. I decided after that I prefer my children to be more well rounded. This is me and my opinion, but we all have to decide what is best for us. Arabic is not easy to learn and it may be better for some to just work on basic communication in the family. If ever you get the chance though, a college class or two in formal arabic could really be helpful.

Yes same here and im Egyptian loool its so hard! but i can read and write akeed.

[palilover 1]

Its always so cute to hear americans try to speak arabic

hee! ya my husband always says: I love "your" arabic. heh heh

Anytime I said ANYTHING in arabic while I was there, everyone would giggle. "Shii" was a favorite lol

phew then I'm not the only one who goes through taht:) All the kids there giggle at me all the time. After a while of that, it gets to be making me self conscious though like when I'm not aalking and they still laugh

[S and S 12]

I spent a year and a half studying formal arabic. I can converse fairly well, with just some occassional grammer mistakes (I will never get arabic grammer down completely, lol). From there I studied Iraqi dialect through my husband and a couple Iraqi women. It works out because I can use the Iraqi words I know and if I don't know the right word then I just say it in formal arabic. Some people laugh, but my husband's family is well educated and all college graduates so they can talk to me in mostly formal arabic. It also comes in handy because I can sit and watch tv and the news and have an idea of what is being said. Formal arabic is also what the Quran is written in so if you want to understand the Quran, then you must learn the formal arabic. Later when I have children I want them to know formal arabic and dialect which means I need to know both. I have met arab kids here who can speak in their home with dialect but have no idea what is being said on Al-Jazeera and cannot read in arabic. I decided after that I prefer my children to be more well rounded. This is me and my opinion, but we all have to decide what is best for us. Arabic is not easy to learn and it may be better for some to just work on basic communication in the family. If ever you get the chance though, a college class or two in formal arabic could really be helpful.

Yes same here and im Egyptian loool its so hard! but i can read and write akeed.

From what I understand, they have whole courses of study in colleges in the Middle East just to learn proper arabic grammer (this for the native arabs). I decided so long as I can get my point accross.................. lol, then good enough!

[palilover 1]

I spent a year and a half studying formal arabic. I can converse fairly well, with just some occassional grammer mistakes (I will never get arabic grammer down completely, lol). From there I studied Iraqi dialect through my husband and a couple Iraqi women. It works out because I can use the Iraqi words I know and if I don't know the right word then I just say it in formal arabic. Some people laugh, but my husband's family is well educated and all college graduates so they can talk to me in mostly formal arabic. It also comes in handy because I can sit and watch tv and the news and have an idea of what is being said. Formal arabic is also what the Quran is written in so if you want to understand the Quran, then you must learn the formal arabic. Later when I have children I want them to know formal arabic and dialect which means I need to know both. I have met arab kids here who can speak in their home with dialect but have no idea what is being said on Al-Jazeera and cannot read in arabic. I decided after that I prefer my children to be more well rounded. This is me and my opinion, but we all have to decide what is best for us. Arabic is not easy to learn and it may be better for some to just work on basic communication in the family. If ever you get the chance though, a college class or two in formal arabic could really be helpful.

yeah I will take it when I get back to school. I had to stop school to do immigration as how can you go to school and keep running back and forth to Palestine? But college course in arabic would be great

Yes same here and im Egyptian loool its so hard! but i can read and write akeed.

From what I understand, they have whole courses of study in colleges in the Middle East just to learn proper arabic grammer (this for the native arabs). I decided so long as I can get my point accross.................. lol, then good enough!

[yaziedandlisa 0]

[Daher.Diane 0]

I would just like to comment on the differences of letters for example, bahibbik and bahibbich

basically the letter isn't different, and both people will write it down as ba7ibbik ( notice that 7 is Haa' not a normal 'H' )

same for 'th' in jordan it would be 'thal' in egypt / seria 'zal' ... dhad / zhad ... etc

As for tenses, that website seem to confuse alot of things together.. I'll try to brief without confusion ( hopefully )

First I need to explain something.. each letter in arabic is available in 4 forms:

[quiet]: L

[open]: La

[broken]: Li

[lifted]: Lu

notice that the amount of time you spent pronouncing this letter is the same.. so La Lu Li are 3 forms of the letter L.. have your spous pronounce them for you to understand it more.

more on other letters like:

Ba Bu Bi / Da Du Di / Ha Hu Hi ... etc..

Now I'll explain something about verbs and I'll bold out the accent of the letter not to confuse it with a real letter.. for example

La <-- this is a short La

Laa <-- this is two letters... La and Aa

Hope this is clear =) .. anyway, keep reading, the ones without an accent are a quiet version:

[Root]

Aamal <-- work

[Present]

* one person:

* ya'mal <-- he's working [ Ya + ' + Ma + L ]

* ta'mal <-- she's working [ Ta + ' + Ma + L ]

* two people:

* ya'malan <-- both of them are working [two men] ( notice Long A at the end ) [ Ya + ' + Ma + La + A + N ]

* ta'malan <-- both of them are working [two women] ( notice Long A at the end ) [ Ta + ' + Ma + La + A + N ]

* many people:

ya'maluon <-- all of them are working [many men] ( long O at the end ) [ Ya + ' + Ma + Lu + O + N ]

ya'malna <-- all of them are working [many women] ( short A ) [ Ya + ' + Ma + L + Na ]

[Past]

'amila <-- he worked ( short a at the end ) [ 'a + Mi + La ]

'amilat <-- she worked ( short a at the end ) [ 'a + Mi + La + T ]

'amilaa <-- they both worked [two men] ( notice La + Aa at the end, pronounced as a very long Aaa ) [ 'a + Mi + La + A ]

'amilataa <-- they both worked [two women] ( notice La + Ta + Aa at the end, pronounced LaTaaa ) ['a + Mi + La + Ta + A ]

'amiloo <-- they all worked [men] [ 'a + Mi + Lu + O ]

'amilna <-- they all worked [women] [ 'a + Mi + L + Na ]

Hope that makes sense, remember I'm trying to hack the roman alphabets.. remember that the best way to learn any language is by learning the alphabets first.

I'm open for any questions =)

[palilover 1]

I would just like to comment on the differences of letters for example, bahibbik and bahibbich

basically the letter isn't different, and both people will write it down as ba7ibbik ( notice that 7 is Haa' not a normal 'H' )

same for 'th' in jordan it would be 'thal' in egypt / seria 'zal' ... dhad / zhad ... etc

As for tenses, that website seem to confuse alot of things together.. I'll try to brief without confusion ( hopefully )

First I need to explain something.. each letter in arabic is available in 4 forms:

[quiet]: L

[open]: La

[broken]: Li

[lifted]: Lu

notice that the amount of time you spent pronouncing this letter is the same.. so La Lu Li are 3 forms of the letter L.. have your spous pronounce them for you to understand it more.

more on other letters like:

Ba Bu Bi / Da Du Di / Ha Hu Hi ... etc..

Now I'll explain something about verbs and I'll bold out the accent of the letter not to confuse it with a real letter.. for example

La <-- this is a short La

Laa <-- this is two letters... La and Aa

Hope this is clear =) .. anyway, keep reading, the ones without an accent are a quiet version:

[Root]

Aamal <-- work

[Present]

* one person:

* ya'mal <-- he's working [ Ya + ' + Ma + L ]

* ta'mal <-- she's working [ Ta + ' + Ma + L ]

* two people:

* ya'malan <-- both of them are working [two men] ( notice Long A at the end ) [ Ya + ' + Ma + La + A + N ]

* ta'malan <-- both of them are working [two women] ( notice Long A at the end ) [ Ta + ' + Ma + La + A + N ]

* many people:

ya'maluon <-- all of them are working [many men] ( long O at the end ) [ Ya + ' + Ma + Lu + O + N ]

ya'malna <-- all of them are working [many women] ( short A ) [ Ya + ' + Ma + L + Na ]

[Past]

'amila <-- he worked ( short a at the end ) [ 'a + Mi + La ]

'amilat <-- she worked ( short a at the end ) [ 'a + Mi + La + T ]

'amilaa <-- they both worked [two men] ( notice La + Aa at the end, pronounced as a very long Aaa ) [ 'a + Mi + La + A ]

'amilataa <-- they both worked [two women] ( notice La + Ta + Aa at the end, pronounced LaTaaa ) ['a + Mi + La + Ta + A ]

'amiloo <-- they all worked [men] [ 'a + Mi + Lu + O ]

'amilna <-- they all worked [women] [ 'a + Mi + L + Na ]

Hope that makes sense, remember I'm trying to hack the roman alphabets.. remember that the best way to learn any language is by learning the alphabets first.

I'm open for any questions =)

ok now I know how they got ya'amel:)

But now what the problem is that they dont have that word amel to work in Palestinian arabic as my husband says different words and doe snot know the word amel! He does not even use anything that starts with ta, ya, etc. Everytime I ask him about verbs in arabic he puts different things at the end but not the beginning

[Daher.Diane 0]

But now what the problem is that they dont have that word amel to work in Palestinian arabic as my husband says different words and doe snot know the word amel! He does not even use anything that starts with ta, ya, etc. Everytime I ask him about verbs in arabic he puts different things at the end but not the beginning

if he puts it in the end, then he's speaking in the past tens..

words for 'amal in palistine are: bishta3'il ( man ) btishta3'il ( woman )

past would be:

ishta3'al = he worked

ishta3'lat = she worked =)

3' letter is GHAIN.

no matter how far it goes, it's still with the basic principles

[palilover 1]

But now what the problem is that they dont have that word amel to work in Palestinian arabic as my husband says different words and doe snot know the word amel! He does not even use anything that starts with ta, ya, etc. Everytime I ask him about verbs in arabic he puts different things at the end but not the beginning

if he puts it in the end, then he's speaking in the past tens..

words for 'amal in palistine are: bishta3'il ( man ) btishta3'il ( woman )

past would be:

ishta3'al = he worked

ishta3'lat = she worked =)

3' letter is GHAIN.

yeah bishta sounds right. But I specifically told him "I work" not "I worked" I think my husband really does talk funny if he speaks all in past tense:))

no matter how far it goes, it's still with the basic principles