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is there a diffrence between "to love" and "to like" in arabic? until now we used "احب" for "i like", as far as i know.
No, there is no difference. Literally, "احب" is to "love", but it is used for "liking" as well.
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Similar in French. Also in Russian. Perhaps English is rare in distinguishing these? Any other languages?
No, in Russian there are more variations for expressing feelings. to love - "любить" and to like "нравиться" ;)
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That's true, there is нравиться, and I deliberately said “similar” and not “the same” (in French too it’s more subtle). But the fact is that любить can translate either “love”(eg he loves her) or “like” (eg he likes playing tennis), whereas нравиться only “like”. Нравиться of course can be used for “fancy”. The words don’t map onto each other one to one.
Are you a native Russian speaker?You sound like you're well-versed in the subject :)Actually you're absolutely right.
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That's very kind of you, Eve379. Am I a native speaker of Russian? That's complicated. I grew up with three languages. You're Russian, presumably?
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Eve379,
Arabic, especially Classical Arabic, has also various ways to express feeling. Let's wait for native Arabic speakers to post some comments. :)
well Classical Arabic has more words for love than probably any language - and nearly impossible to translate. But, a native Arabic speaker would feel them. Whorf hypothesis. Do you really want to go there? :D
pronunciation is wrong.
It is prounounced asadii not asadiyy (no shadda on the ي)
♪Don't you want a lion to love?
Don't you need a lion to love?
Wouldn't you love a lion to love?
You better find a lion to love!♪
I'm Italian and in my language it's completely different to like and to love, different as concepts and as words. And there is another difference among feelings, it's not the same the love for a husband and the feeling for an animal, for a sister, for a friend. Mi piace il gelato= i like ice-cream Io amo mio marito= i love my husband Io voglio bene al mio amico/gatto = i love my friend/cat
But, ''te voglio bene'', is also used as a romantic expression of love, isn't it?
Can this form be used to say"I like my friend Assad" (especially for close friend / spouse)?
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OhadCn,
I never hear Asadii for my (close/spouse) friend Asad, at least, in Standard - as far as I know.
surely there are plenty of other common pets names that could be used in this sentence? It suggests that not enough effort has been out into constructing suitable sentences for the teaching prgramme. have an Egyptian friend named Fareed, so i sent him the sentence صَديقي فَريد عِنْدهُ أَسَد.
If we talk about the gulf states, this is very normal sentence
