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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 Grammar - Personal Pronouns

ana – I
Ex.: ana bardaan – I am cold. (Don’t laugh! Outside temperatures in the Gulf countries can go well over 40 degrees Celsius range, but chances are you’ll spend a lot of time indoors in an air-conditioned premise that may well be too cold to be called cool.)

inta – you (masculine)
Ex.: inta bi-‘7ayr? - Are you fine?

inti – you (feminine, that is when addressing a woman)
Ex.: inti s-sikirtiira, muu chidhii? - You (fem.) are the secretary, right? (In most situations in the Gulf, a man is NOT supposed to initiate conversation with a woman.)

huwa – he (in fast speech cut to “hu” , sometimes you can hear 'uhu' or 'huwwa')
huwa r-ra’is. – He is the director/president.

hiya – she (in fast speech “hi”, "hee")
hiya r-ra’isa. - She is the director/president. (As you see the verb ‘to be’ is not used in the present tense in Arabic. You say, literally, “He the president”, “She the secretary” meaning “He is the president”, “She is the secretary.”

e7na – we (variants: ni7in , ni7na )
e7na 3ummaal. – We are workers.

intu – you (plural) (variant: intaw, notably in Bahrain)
intu min il-hind? – Are you from India?

humma – they
humma min Amriika. – They are from America.

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