Vocabulary Body Parts

Egyptian Arabic Lesson 15 My throat hurts!

Other Health Words head throat eye stomach leg, foot heart brain tooth tongue nose hair ear chest, breast raas zoor
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Other Words

een uyuun ( ineen)

c c

ban rigl (rigleen) alb uluub dimaa sinna sinaan lisaan lisina manaxiir acr widn widaan
adr uduur

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to appear because (+pronoun) except patience bed mustache beard

ahar yihar

al geer
abr

rest cold medicine

to cough to hurt headache diarrhea constipation flu clinic doctor (medical) nurse hospital hospitals to cure, heal

raaa bard dawa ka yiku wagac yiwgac

udaac

ishaal imsaak infiluwanza

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iyaada ciyadaat

abiib aibbaa

mumarria mustafa mustafayaat afa yifi

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to recover (from illness) xaff yixiff aalig yicaalig

aktiblak dawa

to treat Ill write you a prescription

siriir anab dan

ala yila allaa

to shave, get a haircut barber blessed! (said after

haircut, shave, bath)

naciiman allaah yincam caleek

God bless you

(response)

body beaten up broken

severe, strong accident whats wrong with you? dizzy temperature degree

gism agsaam mikassar maksuur gaamid

adsa awaadis

maalak? daayix
araara

daraga daragaat

Expressions and Proverbs

From my eyes. (Ill do it with pleasure.) Patience is the best medicine.

doctor.)

min cineyya iabr asan dawa

e healer is God. (God is the one who heals, not the iaafi huwwa allaah Take from the servant of God, and rely on God. (Accept the care of a doctor, but realize its up to God.) after lunch, walk after dinner.) xud min cabd allaah, wittakil c a allaah itadda witmadda, itcaa witmaa

Eat lunch, stretch out, eat dinner, take a walk. (Sleep

Dialogue Assignment 1. Work with a partner and create a scenario in which you visit a doctor in his clinic. He asks you what your symptoms are, and you tell him. He then says hell write you a prescription. Drills 1 (A). Tell your friend whats hurting you using the pattern . my leg my hand my arm my brain my head my eye my stomach my heart

(B). Now ask your friend what is hurting him, his sister, and his brother, and he will answer using the same list (for example: or etc.). 2. Conjugate the verbs for the persons and tenses given: to cough ( past: I, she, he; present: you, we, they) to get better ( past: I, we, they; future: they, he, you pl.) 3. Write what you think the following idioms using body parts mean? ink of a context when you would say the idiom or phrase.

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4. Translate into Arabic. 1. I have a high temperature. 4. e nurse at the hospital told me to take my medicine three 2. I have been looking for that medicine for three weeks. times a day after eating. 3. I went to the doctor and he prescribed Aspirin and rest. 5. I did what the doctor said, and I got better in two days.

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.

. . .
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.

7. Active Participles. Create active participles from the following verbs. Guess their meaning in English. Example: Prompt: Answer: traveler

Old Lesson Review 8. (lesson 8) Negate the following sentences. Notice that different types of verbs are negated differently. Modals and the future tense use ,while the habitual and plain (no prefix) verbs use ....

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. . . .

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. him/to know/I/yet the girl/to understand to like/meat/we/yet the books/they/to read to bring/the brain sandwich/she

EA 15 Language Notes
1. Past Imperfect Arabic has only two formal tenses, so to create other effects, helping verbs are used. e present or imperfect tense is used for activities that are ongoing (continuous) or that happen all the time (habitual), while the past or perfect is used for events that happened 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:

. . . .

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.

Some verbs like to love and to know refer to states in the imperfect. In the perfect, however, they must refer to events, so they are interpreted as inceptive i.e. coming into the state meaning something like fell in love with or found out 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 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 other event in the past. In English we express this with phrases like he had gone. For example, the following sentence from the text is in past perfect.

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Other examples:

I had gone out for awhile.

. .

I had eaten beakfast when I saw you. He had finished the test before he left.

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

. My head hurts (me). . My leg hurts (me).

4. Using some e word ,like the word ,is almost always the first term of an iaafa. is means that it rarely would take the definite article. For example: some of the students, some of the film, 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) all form the active participle by adding the prefix 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 verb Here is the complete conjugation of a typical form X verb.

Imperative

a- Imperfect

bi- Imperfect

Plain Imperfect

Perfect

Pronoun

a- Imperfect ayistarab atistarab

bi- Imperfect biyistarab bitistarab bitistarab bitistarabi bastarab biyistarabu bitistarabu binistarab istirab mustarab

Plain Imperfect yistarab tistarab tistarab tistarabi astarab yistarabu tistarabu nistarab

Perfect
istarab istarabit istarabt istarabti istarabt

Pronoun huwwa hiyya inta inti ana humma intu ina

Imperative

istarab istarabi

atistarab atistarabi astarab

ayistarabu istarabu atistarabu anistarab

istarabu istarabtu istarabna

Verbal Noun Active Participle