TO PLAY

TO PLAY

Dialogue 43

A: Hey, stop! Where are you going?

أَيُّها، تَوَقَّفْ! إِلى أَيْنَ تَذْهَبُ؟

Ayyuhā, tawaqqaf! Ilā ayna tadhhabu?

B: I am going out.

أَنَا أَخْرُجُ

Anā akhruju.

A: What for?

لِماذا؟ / لِفِعْلِ ماذا؟

Limādhā? / Li-fiʿli mādhā?

B: I want to play football with my friends.

أُرِيدُ أَلْعَبَ كُرَةَ القَدَمِ مَعَ أَصْدِقائِي

Urīdu alʿaba kurata al-qadami maʿa aṣdiqā'ī.

A: And who is going to wash your clothes when you come back?

وَ مَنْ سَيَغْسِلُ مَلابِسَكَ عِنْدَما تَعودُ؟

Wa-man sayaghsilu malābisaka ʿindamā taʿūdu?

B: I will wash them myself.

سَأَغْسِلُها بِنَفْسِي

Sa-aghsiluhā binafsī.

Glossary (43):

*   a friend (m): صَدِيقٌ - Ṣadīq.

*   a friend (f): صَدِيقَةٌ - Ṣadīqah.

*   friends (m/mixed): أَصْدِقاءُ - Aṣdiqā'.

*   friends (f): صَدِيقاتٌ - Ṣadīqāt.

*   who: مَنْ - Man.

*   a piece of clothing: مَلْبَسٌ - Malbas.

*   to stop (oneself): يَتَوَقَّفُ - Yatawaqqafu.

*   to play: يَلْعَبُ - Yalʿabu.