Questions & Answers about الفاكهة دي طازة فعلا، وهي احسن من الفاكهة اللي في السوبرماركت.
In Egyptian Arabic, present-tense sentences like X is Y usually do not use a spoken verb for is.
So:
- الفاكهة دي طازة = This fruit is fresh
- literally something like the-fruit this fresh
This is called a nominal sentence.
If you wanted was or will be, then Arabic would use a verb:
- كانت طازة = it was fresh
- هتبقى طازة = it will be fresh
دي means this for a feminine singular noun in Egyptian Arabic.
So:
- الفاكهة دي = this fruit
Other common demonstratives are:
- ده = this (masculine singular)
- دي = this (feminine singular)
- دول = these