Let’s Begin! “Vocabulary” (Memorize the Vocabulary)
I, I am - Ana
With you - Ma'ak / ma'aki
With him / with her - Ma’au / Ma'aha
With us - Ma'ana
For you - (Masc) Ilak / (Fem) Ilha
Without him - Bidunu
Without them - Bidunhum / mish ma'ahum
Always - Da’iman / Ala tul
Was - Kan
This, - This is Hada
It, It's - Hada
Sometimes - Ahyanan
Maybe - Yimkin
Are you - (M)Hal inta,(F)hal inti
Better - Ahsan
You, you are - (M)Inta/ (F)inti
He, he is /she, she is - Hou/Hiyya
From - Min
Today - Ilyum
Sentences composed from the vocabulary (now you can speak the sentences and connect the words)
I am with you
Ana ma'ak
This is for you
Hada ilak
I am from Palestine
Ana min filistine
Are you from Ramallah?
Inta min ram’allah?
Sometimes you are with us at the mall
Ahyanan inta bitkun ma’na fi al mall
I am always with her
Ana da'iman ma'ha
Are you without them today?
Inta bidunhum ilyum?
Sometimes I am with him
Ahyanan bakun ma’u
*In Palestinian Arabic, there are gender rules. Saying “for you” to a male is ilak, but if you are talking to a female, then it’s ilik.
*In spoken Arabic, words like hal / “are” are usually dropped, and we only say, Hiyya aklat? Huwwa Nayim?, etc., which, if written in Classical Arabic, would have been, Hal akalat hiya? or Hal huwa Na’im?