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JohannKovalenko
27 nov 2022

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Che cosa significa اذهب و اعمل كاس شاي
Does it mean " I go and make a cup of tea" or "Go and make a cup of tea!"?
How do you natives deal with this ambiguity when you can't be sure whether or not the author didn't want to use alif hamza. ?

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sweetworld
27 nov 2022

  • Arabo

First of all we say اذهب و حضِّر كأس شاي.
We use اعمل in dialect and not in formal arabic "Fuseha" .
In the sentence you wrote it's an order "go and make a cup of tea" because there is no hamza above the alif.
When there is a hamza above the alif أ the meaning and the construction of the sentence would change.

Hope it's helpful

ammarsab
27 nov 2022

  • Arabo

i do and make tee : انا أذهب واعمل شاي

ammarsab
27 nov 2022

  • Arabo

go make tea : اذهب واعمل شاي

ammarsab
27 nov 2022

  • Arabo

we need alhmaza ti differ

sweetworld
27 nov 2022

  • Arabo

Go and make a cup of tea: اِذهب و حضر كأس شاي

I go and make a cup of tea : سأذهب لأحضر كأس شاي

sweetworld
27 nov 2022

  • Arabo

Examples:

اِفتح: open
أفتح: I open

اِجلس :sit down
أجلس :I sit down

اُكتب:write
أكتب : I write

JohannKovalenko
27 nov 2022

  • Tedesco
@sweetworld Thank you, that examples help a lot. So when Arabic speakers write, will they always consequently use the hamza? Or are there "lazy" people that don't use it and then nobody knows what the person meant?
I know this question might seem stupid but for me as an absolute beginner, I have no intuition how "correctly" people write on a daily basis.
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sweetworld
27 nov 2022

  • Arabo

Not all Arabic speakers insist on writing correctly by using Hamza to clarify the meaning, most of them rely on the other person to understand.
As native speakers we are used to it, so it's easy to understand what is meant.
I'll give you an advice that might be helpful, try to read the whole sentence to understand better and make sure to speak with people who are using formal arabic and not their dialect.

Alaa_Al-qadi
27 nov 2022

  • Arabo

@JohannKovalenko@JohannKovalenko
according to the situation you understand
nobody uses elhamza in usual
in the daily life

JohannKovalenko
27 nov 2022

  • Tedesco
@sweetworld Thank you 🙂 But in official texts or in newspapers, I guess, the hamza will be used always.
Sticking with people that speak formal Arabic that's a good advice. I will just need to learn a little bit more Arabic in order to be able to recognize them.
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JohannKovalenko
27 nov 2022

  • Tedesco
@sweetworld Thank you. That's very kind of you 🙂
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