How Are You?

كيف الحال

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Introduction

مُقَدِّمَة

Many world languages such as Spanish and German assign grammatical gender to nouns. While Arabic also does this, it takes it one step further and includes a grammatical gender aspect in verbs too. For instance when asking someone how they are, the phrase changes depending on whether the person is male or female:

How are you?

كيفَ حالُكَ؟
(kayfa Haloka)
Addressing to a male

كيفَ حالُكِ؟
(kayfa Haloke)
Addressing to a female

Moreover, the word "you" translates several different ways based on gender-specification. For instance, when addressing a singular male you use the word أنتَ (aanta) and أنتِ (aanti) with a singular female.

Vocabulary

المفردات

انتَ
aanta
you masculine
انتِ
aanti
you feminine
جيّداً
jayidan
well fine
كان
kan
to be temporal
كيفَ؟
kayfa
how
حظ
HaDH
luck

Phrases

أشباه الجمل

كيفَ حالُكَ؟
kayfa Haloka
How are you? masculine formal
كيفَ حالُكِ؟
kayaf Haloke
How are you? feminine formal
كيف حالَك؟
kayfa halak
How are you? informal
ما الأخبار؟
maa alaakhbaar
What's up?
هل أنتَ بخير؟
hal aanta bikhayr
Everything okay?
جيّد
jayid
Fine.
جيّد، أنا بخير
jayid, aanaa bikhayr
I'm fine. masculine
جيّدة، أنا بخير
jayida, aanaa bikhayr
I'm fine. feminine
لستُ بخير
lasto bikhayr
I'm not very well.
جيد جداً
jayid jidan
Very good.
لستُ جيداً
lasto jayidan
Not well.
سيّئ
sayi'
Bad.
وأنتَ؟
wa aanta
And you? masculine
وأنتِ؟
wa aanti
And you? feminine
انتبه لنفسِكَ
aaintabih linafsik
Take care. masculine
انتبهي لنفسِكِ
aaintabihy linafsik
Take care. feminine
حظاَ جيداَ
HaDHan jayidan
Good luck

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دورات

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