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Gulf Arabic
Pronunciation

Gulf Arabic
Vocabulary

...V.2.1 Greetings
...V.2.2 Short Descriptive Phrases

...V.3.1 At the Airport
...V.3.2 Asking for Directions
...V.3.3 Expressions of Location
...V.3.4 Professions
...V.3.5 Nationalities

...V.4.1 How Much Does it Cost?
...V.4.2 At the Market
...V.4.3 The Days of the Week
...V.4.4 The Months
...V.4.5 The Colours

Gulf Arabic
Grammar

...G.2.1. Definite Article
...G.2.2 Personal Pronouns
...G.2.3 Possessive Pronouns
...G.2.4. Possessives with maal-
...G.2.5 Commands and Requests
...G.2.6 Broken Plural
...G.2.7 Plural -aat
...G.2.8 Plural -iin
...G.2.9 Plural -iyya

...G.3.1 The Construct State - iDaafat
...G.3.2 The Dual Form
...G.3.3 Adjectives
...G.3.4 Personal Pronoun Suffixes
...G.3.5 Prepositions
...G.3.6 To Have, 3ind-
...G.3.7 Past Tense I

...G.4.1 More on Adjectives
...G.4.2 Comparison Forms
...G.4.3 Numbers: Cardinals and Ordinals
...G.4.4 Telling the Time
...G.4.5 Question Words
...G.4.6 This, That, These (Demonstrative Pronouns)
...G.4.7 Past Tense II

Gulf Arabic Vocabulary - Asking for Directions

Wayn maktab il-bariid? - Where is the Post office?

Makbtab il-bariid, wallahi, ba3iid 3an hini. Al-a7san taaxidh taksi. - The Post Office...hmm...is far away from here. You better take a taxi.

Chayf aruu7 il-matHaf il-waTani? - How do I get to (go to) the national museum?

Ruu7 siida 3ala hadha sh-shaari3 7atta tishuuf mabna 3ood waayd. Hadha huwa al-mat7af il-waTani. - Go straight along this road until you see a very large building. That is the national museum.

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Wayn shaari3 7amdaan? - Where is Hamdaan Road?

Suug ra’san li ghayat il-ishaara, wa ihnaak liff yisaar. Ba3ad il-jisir, liff yamiin. Hay shaari3 7amdaan. - Drive straight until the traffic lights, and there turn left. After (you pass) the bridge, turn right. There's Hamdaan Road.

Law sama7t, 7afiiz as-sayyid a7mad al-manSuuri min wain? - Excuse me, where is the office of Mr. Ahmad Al-Mansouri?

Xudh il-miS3ad. 7afiiz as-sayyid al-manSuuri fii d-door ith-thaani mgaabil il-miS3ad. - Take the elevator/lift. The office of Mr. Ahmad Al-Mansouri is on the second floor in front of the elevator.

3afwan, kayf aruu7 madiinat jumeira? - Excuse me, how do I get to Madina Jumeirah?

Ah, hadha sahil. Suug siida wa 3ind id-dawwaar ruu7 3ala yisaarik. - Oh, that's easy. Drive straight and at the roundabout go left (literally go on your left).

Fii makiinat Sarf gariib min hini min faDHlak? - Is there an ATM nearby?

Na3am, fii. Hini fi niahaayat shaari3 al-malik fahd mgaabil il-mool. - Yes, tehre is. Here at the end of King Fahd Road in front of the mall.

Shukran jaziilan. - Thank you very much indeed. (literally Copius, abundant thanks.)

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