"تَشَرَّفْنا."
Translation:It's a pleasure to meet you.
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excellent! I was about to ask why it has the naa ending but that would explain it. (so it might be translated as "you honor us")
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تشرفتُ بمعرفتك، تشرفتُ بلقائك First person singular
تشرفنا بمعرفتك، تشرفنا بلقائك First person plural
just to add: both examples while addressing a second person masculine singular :) (assuming a fat7ah on the ك)
Lots of alternate ways to say the same thing (good to meet you, nice to meet you, etc)
Sherif=honourable, so I guess literally it means "you are doing us honour", right?
So is this something you could say to someone you already know (albeit formally), not just the first time (as "pleased to meet you" in English would imply)?
I answered "A pleasure to meet you", and duolingo says this is WRONG. The right answer, it seems, is "It's a pleasure to meet you". Now these two English sentences have, as far as I can tell (and I'm a native speaker), the SAME MEANING. So how one can be right and the the other be wrong? Tell me, please, duolingo, what weird variety of English are you using?
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The computer variety of English, in which the computer understand the sentences that it has been programmed with and not the sentences that it had not been programmed with.
There is no native English speaker of any variety checking the answers in real time. It is a computer scoring, and that computer had not been programmed with all possible variations on common English phrases.
Also, "it is my pleasure to meet you" should be a accepted, especially since Duo does not require a literal translation of the Arabic.
This is very formal.
The common response would be 'The honor is mine.' (assuming the first person is a single masculine or feminine) الشرفُ لي
alsharafu lii
Tasharrafna (-a) address to us the pleasure, isn't it? so could be: we are pleased?
