"فِلَسْطين مَكان تاريخِيّ مُهِمّ."

Translation:Palestine is an important historic place.

June 27, 2019

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https://www.duolingo.com/profile/KevinR86

Let's keep the topic on the translation of the sentence itself.

Sentence discussions threads are no place for political or ideological disagreements and arguments. Thanks!


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/GandaBanda

Looks like your comment worked :) no fights in this one thankfully.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/-RehanRaza-

I am realising many arabic words are taken from Hindi and Urdu, makaan, kursii, kitab, assafar and many more


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Yaqdhan12

You're realising wrong - it's actually the other way around.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/PierrePoutine

If a word in a language in the Arabic sphere of influence has 3 consonants, that's a clue that it might be from Arabic.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/_FiX_

فلسطين بلد تاريخي مهم. there. sounds better.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/PatMiFiAd

I see it first time, that multiple adjectives for one noun are not seperated with "and" oder ",". Is this normal in arabic?


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Thomas511195

It's just the similar pattern to English here, but you could say it with و if you would like to, it's just it would change the meaning a bit


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/VasilikiMa628211

My answer was "Palestine is an historic important place ". It says it is wrong!!!!!


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Weggs

Due gets confused -- it sometimes thinks "an historic" is wrong, and sometimes thinks "a historic" is wrong. Actually, both should be considered correct.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/MonstersAr2

No it's a historical


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/soobee620

I said "Palestine is a historic important place" and it says it's wrong. I don't think either should be wrong (some who speak English say "an" before historic). The order of the adjectives is the same as the original sentence.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Weggs

In standard English, the order would be "an important historic place."


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/adam_orange97

مكان means place


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/_FiX_

sorry Adam, I was being sarcastic...


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/AhlamAssyrian

I put Palestine is a place historically important. I think this is also a correct answer but it marked it as wrong.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/angus390025

English wants the adjective before the noun. A big dog, an important place, etc.


https://www.duolingo.com/profile/not_a_thing

I don't know about the Arabic sentence, but "historic" and "important" are adjectives, while the "historically" in your sentence is an adverb modifying "important"..

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