TENSES

Dialogue 75

I usually do my homework early in the morning.

عادَةً أَقومُ بِواجِباتِي البَيْتِيَّةِ مُبَكِّرَاً في الصَّباحِ

ʿĀdatan aqūmu bi-wājibātī al-baytiyyati mubakkiran fī aṣ-ṣabāḥ.

But yesterday I did my homework late in the afternoon.

لكِنَّ أَمْسِ قُمْتُ بِواجِباتِي في آخِرِ بَعْدَ الظُّهْرِ

Lākinna amsi qumtu bi-wājibātī fī ākhiri baʿda aẓ-ẓuhr.

Usually I spend between thirty minutes and an hour on my homework.

في العادَةِ أَقْضِي بَيْنَ ثَلاثِينَ دَقِيقَةً وَساعَةٍ واحِدَةٍ في واجِباتِي

Fī al-ʿādati aqḍī bayna thalāthīna daqīqah wa-sāʿah wāḥidah fī wājibātī.

But yesterday evening I spent two hours on my homework.

لكِنَّ مَساءَ أَمْسِ قَضَيْتُ ساعَتَيْنِ في واجِباتِي

Lākinna masā'a amsi qaḍaytu sāʿatayni fī wājibātī.

This evening I will do all my homework because tomorrow I will go to Casablanca to go see my aunt, who is sick.

هَذا المَساءَ سَأَقومُ بِكُلِّ واجِباتِي لِأَنَّنِي غَداً سَأَذْهَبُ إِلى الدّارِ البَيْضاءِ لِزِيارَةِ عَمَّتِي، الَّتِي هِيَ مَرِيضَةٌ

Hādhā al-masā'a sa-aqūmu bikulli wājibātī li-annanī ghadan sa-adhhabu ilā ad-Dār al-Bayḍā' liziyārati ʿammatī, allatī hiya marīḍah.

Last night I had a headache.

البارِحَةَ كانَ عِنْدِي صُداعٌ

Al-bāriḥata kāna ʿindī ṣudāʿ.

Today I have a toothache.

اليَوْمَ عِنْدِي أَلَمٌ في أَسْنانِي

Al-yawma ʿindī alamun fī asnānī.

I don't know what I will have tomorrow!

لا أَعْلَمُ ما الَّذِي سَيَكُونُ عِنْدِي غَداً

Lā aʿlamu mā alladhī sayakūnu ʿindī ghadan!

Yesterday I was in Ouarzazate.

أَمْسِ كُنْتُ في وَرْزازاتَ

Amsi kuntu fī Warzāzāt.

Today I am in Mohammedia.

اليَوْمَ أَنَا في المُحَمَّدِيَّةٍ

Al-yowma anā fī Muḥammadiyyah.

Tomorrow I will be in El Jadida.

غَداً سَأَكونُ في الجَدِيدَةِ

Ghadan sa-akūnu fī al-Jadīdah.