Round 244

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Marius Vincenzii Dennischter
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter ROUND 244:

أريد أن أذهب إلى أقرب مطعم.

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Ed Blankenship
Ed Blankenship Guess I can't participate :( ... although that's probably for the best for now lol
Wrik Chatterjee
Wrik Chatterjee Egyptian Arabic or MSA, I think
Brad Wilson
Brad Wilson It's must be MSA. I think Egyptian is عايز اروح الى المطعم الاقربع.
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin 'aryd 'an 'aDhb a'ly 'aqrb mT3m -------- I think this is the romanisation(without vowels because (whatever the arabic equivalent to niqudot is) is not there). Don't trust me, I'm bad with Arabic script. And I don't think it's MSA because if it were, the ى would have two dots under it.
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter It's actually MSA. I guess it's quite common these days to drop the double dot on ى when it is in the end of a word...
I won't shoot some difficult ancient language after our long stallified round :p
And I don't want to do Romance languages as it will stallified the round as well due to so many ppl who speak Romance languages.
Ed Blankenship
Ed Blankenship That's not a ي with out dots. That's an alif maqsura. It is a final a.
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter ًred faced. I blame my teacher for not telling me that.
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin I blame Omniglot for only including it on maghreb and egyptian dialectical pages.
Adrian Baxt-Dent
Adrian Baxt-Dent I don't know how to do Arabic script, and I have only just started trying to learn it, but it the first bit a Personal pronoun in some way? With something attached..... ?!?!? (I am going to have to read some more.
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter Adrian, I'm not sure how to answer that. But I can't see any obvious pronouns there (aka hidden). This sentence is quite simple actually, just look the words up in dictionary and you can find them. It's pretty straight forward, except the first one, which requires a bit of thinking. But once you get the rest of them it's going to be easier to guess.
Adrian Baxt-Dent
Adrian Baxt-Dent I can't even find where I put my online Arabic lessons to have a look >:( And I really can't remember the names of any of the Arabic letters.

أريد
looks to me like أنا
the equivalent of "I" but with an added letter.
Please suggest a better dictionary than "www.directdictionary.com" ???
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin I want to leave as soon as possible at the restaurant? to the restaurant?
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin to leave? to make disappear?
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter Adrian, try wikitionary. This phrase is simple enough for wikitionary.

Thatcher,
I want to (leave) (as soon as possible) [at] the restaurant.
[ ] = close
( ) = incorrect
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin I want to remove the restaurant soon?
Brad Wilson
Brad Wilson Look up the 3-consonant root ... أقرب.
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin I did
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin I want to go to the restaurant soon?
Brad Wilson
Brad Wilson قريب > اقرب
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter I want to go to the restaurant (soon)
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin I want to go the the restaurant nearby
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin aqrb means "I am (being) near", no?
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter .أقرب
Is indeed and adjective. It does mean "near", but in different form! Near will be :
قرب
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin I want to go to the nearest restaurant?
Ed Blankenship
Ed Blankenship Near would be قريب
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter Thatcher, you are welcomed to host the next round :D
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin
Thatcher Ó Donnabháin Thank you! :D
Brad Wilson
Brad Wilson adjective of pattern CCVC (where V is يـ) the comparative is VCCC (where V is أ)
Brad Wilson
Brad Wilson كبير > أكبر / سغير > أسغر
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