New phrases_26.7.22 Flashcards
3lach at3kkel b’chi 7aja moorak?
Why stumble over something that’s behind you?
Crazy
7m9 / l7ma9 (it’s crazy) / bnita 7m9a / houma 7mma9 / l7ma9 hada (this is crazy) / l’sbitar 7m9
mktab (hada mktab / kan mktab dyalna = it is destiny / it was our destiny)
Destiny
ntiya aini ana
you’re my eye (term of endearment)
ntiya mktabi / w ntiya aini (ana)
you’re my destiny
Hada mooraya
That’s behind me.
(Response to): Sllm Lia l’Emma
Moblagh
I’ll take very good care of you (Eg: man to woman or vice versa)
n7ttek frassi f’3ini
He told me
Gal/9al li(ya)
Mabin
Among
nhzlik rassek bin nas
I’ll make you (proud/important) amongst the people
Lift your head up
Hzz rassek
Ba9i/ba9a
Still. (eg: ana hna ba9i. (Fu9ash?) fl’9ahwa. nchoufek mn b3d)
Alone
bo7di (eg. bghit bka bo7di shwiya: I want to be (stay) alone for a while)
Makhllit walou tmma
I left nothing there
khlli houma yhder / khlli naas yhdro
Let them talk
makhllit madr / makhllit majrebt
I left nothing undone, tried everything.
swab (sooab)
Etiquette (eg. fassi etiquette, greetings etc)
Hands
Yed / yeddin
If it was
Lo kan (eg. manarf lo kan dyali)
dmagh
brain (eg. dmagh sghir dyali)
maghaynkounsh andi (maghadinkounsh)
I won’t have (future)
Bghrit n9a wa7ed lblassa blli kan9der ‘call home’
I want to find etc
Why are you laughing at me
3lach kat7ek alia (kat7ek alia, w kat7ek maya?)
bash
in order to (eg. kan9ra l’darija bash nkoun mtlou9)
Later, I’m going rowing / training with my team
Mn b3d, ghanmshi rowing m3a fr9a dyali
bghit nb9a bo7di shwiya
I want to be alone for a while
Seef
Summer
3otla
Holidays (ghan andek… 3otla had 3am… had seef?)
t7t mn l’shjra, kansm3a l’tyoor
under a tree, listening to the birds
Shar9
East
West
Gherb
North
Shamaal
Janoob
South
ri7la
trip