انتقلنا الاسبوع الماضي.

We moved last week.

Breakdown of انتقلنا الاسبوع الماضي.

• اسبوع: week
• ماضي: last
• انتقل: to move; relocate

Questions & Answers about انتقلنا الاسبوع الماضي.

How would a Levantine speaker pronounce انتقلنا الاسبوع الماضي?

A careful pronunciation would be something like:

intaʔalna l-usbuuʕ il-maaḍi

A simple learner-friendly transliteration is:

inta'alna l-usbuu' il-maadi

A few notes:

• انتقلنا = inta'alna / intaʔalna
• الاسبوع is usually pronounced l-usbuuʕ, because the al- article often links smoothly to the previous word
• الماضي = il-maaḍi

In many Levantine varieties, this sentence sounds a bit formal because انتقلنا is a more standard-style verb. In very everyday speech, people often use simpler wording for we moved.

What does انتقلنا break down into?

انتقلنا consists of:

• انتقل = he moved / relocated
• -نا = we

So انتقلنا means we moved or we relocated.

This is a past tense verb. The -نا ending is the normal past-tense ending for we in Arabic.

Why isn’t there a separate word for we?

Because Arabic usually includes the subject inside the verb itself.

So instead of saying: