Egyptian Want To Learn Everyday Basic Egyptian Words
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Awaais
Saturday 30th of December 2006 05:44:45 PM
Want to learn Everyday Basic Egyptian Words: As salamu alaykum
I have been learning Fus7a for the past 6 years and have memorized alot words. Also I have learnt the Arabic grammar. At the moment I would like to go to Egypt and learn the Ammeyah dialect. Basically I need someone who can help me. I need to know how many common basic terms differ with the fus7a here is an example of what I mean see below
Egyptian Arabic
إيه = what (eh)
فين = where (fain)
مين = who(meen)
ليه = why (laih)
إزاي = how (ez-zaay)
Fus7a Arabic
ما = what = (maa or madha)
أين = when (ayna)
من = who (min)
لماذا = Why (lima or limadha)
كيف = how (kayfa)
I know the fus7a but recently I learnt the Egyptian ones. Is there anyone who can come up with more. I need basic everyday words which differ with the fus7a. Shukraan Jazeelan in advance
FaWzY
Tuesday 02nd of January 2007 01:28:50 AM
Sure man, not problem, I'll try to help you :)
In Egypt we call a "Thing" : (7aga) حاجة
While in Fus7a it's شيء
Also when we say "Because", we say : (3alashan) علشان
While in Fus7a it's من أجل/لأجل
Still more to come
Awaais
Wednesday 03rd of January 2007 10:07:00 PM
Shukraan jazeelan Fawzy
Inshallah even if you gave one word per day that would be great.
Added bomus if you have time please try to give a sentence where that word can be used.
Thanks for your time.
Crystal1111
Tuesday 09th of January 2007 11:10:22 AM
try http://www.youregypt.com/eguide/lang/
it gives lots of words and phrases
ma'asalama
FaWzY
Sunday 14th of January 2007 11:34:41 AM
It sure is good, but not as good as a native speaker ;)
Awaais, in Egypt we say "Motshaker Awi" or "Alf Shokr", we never say "Sukraan jazeelan".
Also we never use "J", we use "G" instead.
Motshaker Awi = Thank you very much
Alf shokr = 1000 "Thank you"'s
Awaais
Sunday 14th of January 2007 06:05:07 PM
Alf Shukor ya Fawzy
hamid18
Wednesday 17th of January 2007 08:58:56 AM
When Egyptians conjugate verbs, they usually add بـ b to the beginning of the conjugation to show the action is currently taking place...without بـ it usually means the action would be done.
مثلا:
انا بشرب (ana) bashrab = "I am drinking"...also "I drink"
انا أشرب (ana) ashrab= "I would drink"
in egyptian when they want to say "then" or "so" they say اذن ezn whereas in MSA and al-fus they say اذا edhan.
when they say "i want" they usually say عاوز awwez or عاوزة awweza (feminine)
in arabic you say أريد oriid.
here are a few more examples of egyptian words and their arabic equivalents:
actually - beSaraHa - بصرحة
actually - fi al-haqiqa - في الحقيقة
upcoming - el-gayya - الجية
upcoming - al-qadm - القادم
is not - mish - مش
is not - laysa - ليسّ
ard_wine
Thursday 18th of January 2007 02:53:05 AM
Egyptian pick up lines: I found the website www.youregypt.com very helpful, thank you to the poster. I am looking for some egyptian pick up lines, nothing too difficult, just a compliment or something, like 'you are beautiful'. The phrases section is useful for this but I cannot select my 'want to learn' language to egyptian so cannot access it. Any ideas?
Thanks
FaWzY
Saturday 20th of January 2007 10:03:45 PM
Stay away from our women!! :p
You are beautiful ==> Enty gameelah انتي جميلة
You are cute ==> Enty am-mourah انتي امورة
Ivan16
Tuesday 13th of February 2007 04:41:58 AM
How do you read the 7?
hamid18
Thursday 15th of February 2007 09:14:02 AM
7 is the number for the arabic letter ح
يعازم علي = to invite to...
FaWzY
Sunday 25th of February 2007 12:23:51 AM
it's only "يعزم على", not "يعازم"
استنى شوية - Wait for a bit/while.
انت فين؟ - Where are you?
أنا عايز أتمشى - I want to take a walk.
Meera
Thursday 18th of December 2008 02:16:28 AM
good words. thanks
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