WHEN

A:         mata   tadhabu   ela   al madrasa

           When do you go  to   school?

      (“al” is the equivalent of the article “the” which doesn’t occur here in the English sentence)

B:          ana   adhabu  ela   al madrasa  fee   assa’a attamina

               I        go          to       school     at      eight o’clock.

           (The preposition “fee” can be substituted with “’ala ”)

A:       mata        tadhabu      ela   al  firash

           When  do you go        to         bed?

B:       ana   adhabu  ela   al  firash   fee   assa’a attasi’a

            I       go          to             bed   at     nine o’clock.

A:              mata               ta’udu            min    al  madrasa

                 When  do  you  come  back  from       school?

B:    (ana)   a’udu      min    al  madrasa  fee   assa’a attaniya ‘ashra

          I   come  back  from       school      at                     twelve.

A:               mata              ta’udu             min    al  massjid 

                 When  do you  come  back    from       mosque?

B:           (ana)   a’udu       min   al  massjid    fee   assa’a assadissa

                I   come  back  from       mosque      at                six.

           

                    

A:                 mata              ya’udu    abuka          min    al  ’amal

 

                 When  does    your    father  arrive    from       work?

           (“arrive”  here is used as “come back”; the Arabic for “to arrive” is “wassala” (past) / “yassilu” (present))

             

B:            (abee)  ya’udu          fee   assa’a   assabi’a

                  He       arrives          at                    seven. 

      

A:              mata           tadhabu    ummuka         ela  al  ’amal

 

                When    does   your  mother   go         to      work?

B:       heya    tadhabu     ela     al  ’amal  fee   assa’a   assabi’a sabahan

      

        She         goes          to      work        at              seven in the morning.

                

A:               mata    anta        dahibun         (mas.)

                   mata    antee        dahibatun      (fem.) 

          

                    When  are       you         going?

B:                  ana      dahibun         al an          (mas.)

                    ana      dahibatun     al an        (fem.)

         

                       I’m         going               now.

A:                   mata    saturhadiru

                       When are you leaving?

  (In Arabic, sa is the equivalent of will and shall in English. The rha sound in

Turhadiru is like the r sound in the French language.)

B:              sa-urhadiru (hadihee) allayla(ta)

                 I’m    leaving tonight.

     (As we saw before, hadihee is the Arabic feminine for this)