"رَقَم هاتِف اَلْمُهَنْدِس غَريب جِدّاً."

Translation: The engineer's phone number is very weird.

[sad_quails]

How can a phone number be weird? Explanation plz Duo.

[T-MAN9000]

You can buy specific patterns if you're willing to spend extra money. One of my coworkers had six consecutive 1's in his number

[AzIgaziZsoozsy]

What's the origin of the Arabic word for phone? I was sure it would be the international word for it, but it's clearly not. How come?

Okay, actually even in Hebrew used another classical word to the verb call someone on phone, from the word "connect", and the mobile comes from the word "handy", but everyone calls the noun telephone or just phone, especially when we talk about not only mobile phones. So how come this other word in Arabic, what's the meaning of it's source, origin, the three letter base? I'm very surprised and curious! :)

[Parayus]

The three letter base is "ح ت ف" which means to shout or call. That's it.

[a59833]

See this other thread: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/33162247.

[yn13]

Shouldn't it be "this engineer's phone number..."?

[AzIgaziZsoozsy]

No, there isn't the word "this" in the Arabic sentence, so why would it be?

[AuraPiha]

What would be "the very weird engineer's phone number"?

[bibiwifey]

the words raqam hatif would be definite just like al-muhandis.

[jumaana4]

Why you use weird in sentence ? Can you explain .... what's this weird weird

[a59833]

When I hovered over "raqam haatif" the box with the translation had reversed the words: "haatif raqam". Is this a mistake or are both orders acceptable? I was also wondering: is "raqam haatif" also an example of iDaafa?

[AbubakarFarooqui]

Then its his address lol.

[vsandl]

How would you say "the phone engineer's number..."?

[Smokey1207]

that doesnt make sense though?

[Tawhid56025]

Mobile and phone are the same thing.So why my answer is wrong

[lucile199926]

I don't see where the 'very' is expressed into the sentence. Could you explain me ?