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Beginner - When are you coming?

Now that you have made friends abroad, you want to invite them to visit you back home. Today we will teach you how to ask a person when he, or she, will visit your hometown. You will also hear an example response that is usually associated with such a question.
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3 Comments

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    Desmond says
    Wed 22nd Feb 12@07:32 am

    A distinction should be drawn between "tishriin al-'awwal" (October) and "tishriin a(l)-thaany" (November).
  • abdia says
    Sat 10th Mar 12@12:49 pm

    i cannot differentiate satata sataati and sa aati
  • Moshaya says
    Sat 10th Mar 12@09:30 pm

    @abdia, lol what is satata? I also like how you liked your own comment grin Ok hopefully the following will explain things more

    Briefly, the root of the word is أتى, from this root we can derive the present tense verb by adding letters and creating certain patterns. if you add the prefix أ to the beginning, this means "I" i.e. the verb is a present tense first person masculine or feminine so

    آتي
    Aaty
    Is "I come", notice the first letter is آ which is basically like having two أ since there was an alif already in the root, and we added a new one to it which doubled it.

    Add ت instead of أ to the beginning, it would be "she" who is doing the action i.e

    تأتي
    Ta2ty
    She comes

    Now prefix the letter س to the present tense verb to make it future tense.

    ستأتي
    Sata2ty
    she will come

    سآتي
    Sa2aaty
    I will come

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