I made this chart to me help learn / remember how to answer the common question: What time is it? And because of nerdiful love of making charts.
Editor’s note: This is what they taught us to say in class, that is, in Modern Standard Arabic. I’m curious if you’d actually say this on the street, though. Could any Arabic-speaking readers of my blog confirm that??
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deadmotivation answered:
you don’t say dakkika or nasf. i.e. khamseh illa. and its oo khamseh, not wa khamseh for street arabic. and instead of tamama = bi’zzabit
jumana answered:
I’m guessing the … illa rub’ is a rendering issue. Also, its pretty much the same in spoken Arabic except for tamāman and nuṣf is said nuṣ
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explicithandlz answered:
All this is right, except for the ‘exactly’ one. In that case you would simply say the #
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