- Forum >
- Topic: Arabic >
- "اَلْأَكْل في بَيْتي غَريب لٰ…
"اَلْأَكْل في بَيْتي غَريب لٰكِنّ اَلْأَكْل في بَيْتَك طَيِّب."
Translation:The food in my house is weird but the food in your house is good.
21 Comments
Doesn’t recognize “strange”, even though this is the most common sense of غريب
طيب means tastes good and it is refer to food only
جيد means good and it is refer to everything
That's what I was wondering too. I thought the sentence read that the house was weird.
Once again, the order of the words is wrong: https://i.gyazo.com/5d24a9332a22671ad7700405ec0f81cc.png On desktop, using chrome, latest version
289
الأكلُ في بيتي غريبٌ لَكنَّ الأكلَ في بيتِكَ طيبٌ
"2al-2akl(u) fii baitii ghariib(un) lakinna 2al-2akl(a) fii baitika Tayyib(un)."
An underrated comment! I always support your comment, Mi_amas_Noha :))
- 888
It's a dagger alif–a diacritic peculiar to Quranic writing used to indicate a long A-sound when it is only pronounced and not written, which occurs in a few Arabic words like هَذَا ، ذَلِكَ ، اللَّهُ ، رَحْمَنٌ ، سَمَوَاتٌ ، ثَلَثُمِائَةٍ ، مِمَّ ، هَأَنَذَا. Using this diacritic in everyday writing is not standard in the least, but I suppose the course writers thought it would be a wise idea to use it so learners would have a written indication of the fact that the A-sound in those words is long. They didn't take into account that typing that diacritic for typing exercises would be such a pain.
What is the difference between "the food in my house is weird" and "the food is in my weird house"?
I mean, what else did you expect if you're only eating cold chicken, Carrie?
Many of these sentences have such little practical value that I keep wondering what the course designers were thinking...
