Breakdown of من فضلك، أين المستشفى؟
أينayna
where
الal
the
مستشفىmustashfâ
hospital
من فضلكmin fadlika
please
Questions & Answers about من فضلك، أين المستشفى؟
Why doesn't the Arabic sentence have a word for "is"?
In Arabic, sentences in the present tense don't use a word for "to be" (am, is, or are). Therefore, أين المستشفى؟ literally translates to "Where the hospital?".
What is the literal translation of من فضلك?
It literally translates to "from your grace" or "from your favor," but it is the everyday way to say "please". من means "from" and فضل means "grace" or "favor", with the ـك suffix meaning "your".
Does من فضلك change depending on who I am speaking to?
Yes! The final suffix ـك changes based on the gender of the listener. You would pronounce it as من فضلِكَ (min fadlika) when speaking to a man, and من فضلِكِ (min fadliki) when speaking to a woman. Usually, native speakers will just say "min fadlak" or "min fadlik" in daily conversation.
The last letter of المستشفى (al-mustashfa) looks like the letter yaa (ي) but doesn't have dots. What is it?
That letter is called "alif maqsura" (ى). Even though it looks like a dotless ي, it is actually a vowel that makes a long "a" sound at the end of a word, just like a regular alif (ا).
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