"أَنْتِ جَوْعانة يا أُسْتاذة سامْية."
Translation:You are hungry, Professor Samia.
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It seems that "2ustaadh" has a common root with the Spanish pronom "usted" (which is used in Spanish as a polite form).
Thanks for that, that's rwally going to help me remember. All of this aeabic vocab is so different, its nice to see a familiae word every now and again.
It is a coincidence. Usted is just a contraction of "vuestra merced". In Portuguese, there is "você", from "vossa mercê". It has nothing to do with أستاذ, but it still may help people remember this word :)
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Does it really? It was the way I memorised the meaning of 2ustaadh, thinking that a professor is someone one has respect for. Is my folk etymology really true?! I thought it was my private invention.
It actually seems to be a common misconception. The Spanish "usted" is probably a contraction of "vuestra merced" (something akin to "your Grace"), with the similarity to استاذ seeming to be a coincidence.
I think if it was, it would have been spelled differently by the Spanish. I assume it would look something like "ustaz" or "ustace", just like how the article "el" is also a contraction of a Latin word and has nothing to do with the Arabic ال (in fact, some few words in Spanish and place names throughout Spain DO sometimes contain this exact Arabic word, but it's always spelled like "al" as in "almuerzo", or "Almería"; Spanish doesn't have the Arabic æ sound after all), though it must have had an influence on them choosing specifically this way of contraction, and not "il" like Italian or "lo" like French ("le") or Portuguese ("o").
Yes. مُعَلِّمْ specifically refers to someone who teaches, a teacher, an instructor or tutor. Compare it to the verb to teach عَلَّمَ. As for أُسْتاذ, it could mean a teacher, a professor or simply mister. It is often used to call someone Sir. In fact, that's its original usage. Its use to mean teacher comes from students often referring to their teacher as Sir. Its female form, أُستاذة can also be used as a polite title for a lady.
I know we're meant to ignore pronunciations from the bot that don't match what is actually written here, but that's just not how I learn best.
Does anybody understand why the bot is adding a '-tan' suffix on 'professor' and 'Samia'? Is it a malfunction, or is it grammar we haven't learned yet?
My, I've never seen anyone eat as voraciously. You are hungry, professor.
It's a statement. For it to be a question it would have "hal" in the beginning of the sentence, which is means "is" or "are"
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Hm. Roughly right. But it doesn't have to mean "is" or "are", it could be "do/does", "will", "should" etc. Most accurate, I think, would be to say it means "is it the case that [declarative statement]" although of course no one would translate it like that.
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In the BBC beginners course, that word is translated as "lecturer". It seems that Duolingo is being dogmatic here. But it doesn't matter, does it! As long as we comply, but know that the translation doesn't need to be so rigid.
Now that i think about it. who would say You are hungry, Professor Samia shouldn't it be Are you hungry Professor Samia?
I wanted to ask, why there is no sign to put comma and also a keyboard. Because until now, there are some questions that I got wrong just because there is no comma. I am just asking, and I’m not angry. Thank you :)
