Learn how to give your name
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| Hi, everyone! I’m Nora. |
| أهلا أنا نورا. |
| (Ahlan ana Nora.) |
| Welcome to the Arabic Whiteboard Lessons. |
| In this lesson, you’ll learn how to give your name in Arabic. |
| Let's get started! |
| Let's look at the dialogue. |
| When I read, I want you to pay attention to how they give their names. |
| Find the pattern for doing so and see how it's used in the dialogue. |
| مرحبا. أنا عماد عزت. تشرفنا. |
| (marḥaban. ʾanā ʿimād ʿizzat. tašarrafnā.) |
| تشرفنا، أنا حسام حسن. |
| (tašarrafnā, ʾanā ḥosām ḥasan.) |
| Hello. |
| I am Emad Ezzat. |
| Nice to meet you. |
| Nice to meet you, I am Hossam Hassan. |
| Now let's look at the sentence pattern. |
| This pattern will be the structure that our dialogue will follow. |
| أنا |
| (ʾanā) |
| Name |
| I am [Name]. |
| Okay let's look at the vocabulary. |
| First we have |
| أنا |
| (ʾanā) |
| I or I am |
| أنا |
| (ʾanā) |
| مرحبا |
| (marhaban) |
| hello |
| مرحبا |
| (marhaban) |
| تشرفنا |
| (tasharrafna) |
| nice to meet you. |
| تشرفنا |
| (tasharrafna) |
| There is another way to give your name in Arabic |
| which is to say |
| ٱسْمِي |
| (ismi) |
| and then you say your name, |
| which means my name is and then you say your name. |
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