TO DRIVE

TO DRIVE

Dialogue 53

A : Where do you work?

أَيْنَ تَعْمَلُ؟

Ayna taʿmalu?

B : I work in Casablanca.

أَعْمَلُ في الدّارِ البَيْضاءِ

Aʿmalu fī ad-Dār al-Bayḍā'.

A : How do you get there?

كَيْفَ تَذْهَبُ إلى هُناكَ؟

Kayfa tadhhabu ilā hunāka?

B : I take the train.

آخُذُ القِطارَ

Ākhudhu al-qiṭār.

A : Don't you have a car?

أَلَيْسَ عِنْدَكَ سَيَّارَةٌ؟

Alaysa ʿindaka sayyārah?

B : My family has one. But I don't know how to drive.

عائِلَتِي لَدَيْها واحِدَةٌ. لكِنَّنِي لا أَعْرِفُ القِيادَةَ

ʿĀ'ilatī ladayhā wāḥidah. Lākinnanī lā aʿrifu al-qiyādah.

A : Why don't you know how to drive?

لِماذا لا تَعْرِفُ القِيادَةَ؟

Limādhā lā taʿrifu al-qiyādah?

B : I haven't gotten a driver's license yet.

لَمْ أَحْصَلْ بَعْدُ على رُخْصَةِ القِيادَةِ

Lam aḥṣal baʿdu ʿalā rukhṣati al-qiyādati.

Glossary (53):

*   a train: القِطارُ - Al-qiṭār.

*   a family: عائِلَةٌ - ʿĀ'ilah.

*   a driver's license: رُخْصَةُ قِيادَةٍ - Rukhṣatu qiyādah.

*   not yet: لَمْ … بَعْدُ - Lam … baʿdu.

*   to drive: يَقودُ - Yaqūdu.