Intermediate - Coffee or tea

August 26th, 2008 1 comment
Many Arabs all over the Arab world love to spend all day sitting in a cafe drinking endless cups of coffee, so if you want to spend the day in the life of a middle aged Arab man then you'd better learn how to place your orders in Arabic! Tune in to find out how to express your preferences when it comes to ordering tea and coffee in this intermediate podcast.
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    ramina says
    Sun 31st Aug 08@03:36 am

    How do you say plug up the ipod and unplug the ipod?
  • Ehab
    Ehab says
    Sun 31st Aug 08@03:06 pm

    We say "وصّل" or "أشبك", both words mean (connect), this is how we say it.
    So the sentence would be "وصّل الآي بود", notice I used "ال" for iPod cause it is a name.
  • female thumbnail
    turkish says
    Mon 8th Sep 08@12:21 am

    Salam

    In the conversation you usedثنين شاي
    In formal arabic for numbers from 1 to 10 there must be plural noun.
    So in colloquial this rule isn't applied?
  • Ehab
    Ehab says
    Mon 8th Sep 08@05:48 am

    It is a bit tricky, because (tea) is liquid and that is why it didn't take plural, if it was countable material like (ma77ayah محّاية) which is (eraser), then you will use plural from (ثلاث محّايات).
    BTW, numbers from 3-10 takes the plural not from 1-10 cause 1 is singular :) and 2 is dual ;)
  • female thumbnail
    turkish says
    Mon 8th Sep 08@04:57 pm

    Salam

    thanks for replying my silly question :-P i didn't notice that tea is countable or not :red:
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