Lower Intermediate - Arabic proverbs

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Ahlain,

I am very gratefull for all this lessons that you gave us here.

I have some question about proverbs and verbs used there:
I.
istaqarra means to settle(in present we say: ana astaqeerro-I settle)
Example of sentence to make sure that I am using it properly.

1)I want to settle down in the village soon.
اريد ان استقر في القرية قريبا
Transcription:Ored an astaqreero fe qarya qareban.

The second verb is tajAwaza- means like to pass by,going past.In present ana atajawazo -I pass by...)

2)I crossed the bound between Poland and Germany.
اتجاوزت الحدود بين بولندا و المانيا
AtajAwazto al-hodod bayn Bolanda wa almAneya.

III.

Verb :3aTa-to give

I am not sure about present tense (ana Ot3ey-I give)

1)I will give a gift for him
سوف اعطي هديةلك
Sawfa Otey hadeya lak.

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Czarek
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Ahlain w sahlain czarek25;
Shokran for your nice words,,let me answer your question in the order:
- Yes, the verb (istaqarra) means (to settle), and your example is right, however, the transcription shows there is some simple grammatical mistakes, like (Ored an astaqreero) should be (Ored an astaqreera) because the word (an) puts (fat7a) to the end of the word that comes after it.. so I would write the sentence like (Ureed an astaqrra fe alqaryah qareeban).
- The verb (tajawaza) means to bypass, your example is important, because I see you’ve use (alef) in the beginning and put (ta) in the end (اتجاوزت) now this is wrong, the verb in English is in past tense, therefore all what you had to do is to put the (ta) in the end so it bocomes (تجاوزت).. if it was present tense then you put the (alef) but take off the (ta) like (أتجاوز).. Both (alef) and (ta) should not come in the same word to mean (I).
- The last verb (3ata) should be (a3ta) or (a36a – أعطى) and as you said it means (to give).. I give is (ana u36y – أنا أعطي) .. Your example in English should be (I’ll give him a gift) which is (سوف أعطي لك هدية) in Arabic.
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Ehab

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سلام
This is totally unrelated, but I'm trying to figure out the verb conjugations for "to write"
I think that "I write" is:
اكتب -- akatabu?
but I don't know the other ones. Can you set me straight?
شكرا

and... how do you spell table?

Table is طاولة
أكتب is right (I write), the rest of the present tense conjugations are coming soon in a special lesson ;)
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Ahlan,
I did not understand in the second proverb why past tense (قطعك) was used where the meaning is future tense (will cut).
Would you please shed some light on this point??
Ferhan

@frhn, the English translation is not a literal direct translation of the Arabic text, but the best translation in English.

Literally, the second proverb is
The time like the sword if you did not cut it it cut you

تقطع is a present tense verb which means you cut. The ت at the beginning indicates you or she.

Now if you add لم before a present tense verb, the tense becomes past e.g. لم يفعل is he did not do

قطعك is a past tense verb (not a future tense) which means it/he cut you

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