Questions & Answers about التصليح اخد بالضبط ساعة.
What does التصليح mean here?
التصليح means the repair or the fixing. It comes from the verb صلّح = to repair / fix.
In this sentence, it is being used as a noun, not as a verb, so you can think of it as the repair job.
Why does التصليح have الـ at the beginning?
الـ is the Arabic definite article, like the in English.
So:
- تصليح = a repair / repair work
- التصليح = the repair
In this sentence, the speaker is talking about a specific repair that both people already know about, so التصليح is natural.
Why is اخد used to mean took?
In Levantine Arabic, اخد is very commonly used for time duration:
- اخد ساعة = it took an hour
- اخد خمس دقايق = it took five minutes
This is very normal everyday Levantine.
English uses take this way too, so the structure matches English quite nicely here.
Why is it written اخد and not أخذ?