"جَدّة لَطيفة وَجَدّ لَطيف"
Translation:a kind grandmother and a kind grandfather
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الله يحفظها. :)
allaah yi7faDHhaa
May God conserve her. (That's what an Arab would typically respond to a statement like that.)
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Nope, you'd need to say something like "There is a kind grandmother and a kind grandfather." هناك جدة لطيفة وجد لطيف.
The words directly translate to "grandmother kind and grandfather kind". There is no "is" in the sentence, so you'd be adding a word that isn't there (nor implied). It means essentially the same thing in terms of understanding, but it is not accurate in terms of the structure of the phrase.
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What does that mean, laszabine? As fa4 as I can see, it can only mean, "grandmothers are kind...", and then I think the Arabic would have the definite plural.
How can we recognize that the meaning is "a kind grandma and a kind grandpa" and not "a grandma is kind and a grandpa is kind"?
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Because it can never mean the latter in Arabic. In Arabic, generalizations take the definite article, so even if you wanted to say that a grandmother is always or generally kind, it'd still be الجدات طيبات (al-jaddaatu TAyyibaatun, "The grandmothers are kind.").
Wanted to understand this bit about pronunciation. What is written is " jadda latifa wa jadd latif", but what is said sounds like "jadda-tun latifa wa jadd latif". So, i want to know how and why this invisible 'tun' comes into the spoken language. Regards
"A nice grandmother and grandfather" would be more idiomatic in English (the adjective doesn't have to be repeated to apply to both nouns). Though I'm not a native speaker, لطيف wouldn't be the first word I would use to translate "kind". "Nice" or "charming" would both be closer.
Kind and nice have very different meanings in english, they are not interchangeable
No My answer is correct It must be A kind grandmother and a nice grandfather.
According to the dictionary laTeef can also mean pleasant, agreeable - lost a heart for inputting this
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Well, I don't know if that's always how native speakers feel when they encounter learning material intended for non-native speakers, because many English courses that I come across are actually rather good, but as far as Arabic is concerned, I've yet to encounter a textbook or course that didn't use comically awkward, artificial phrasing. Maybe it's something to do with the whole diglossia situation, or maybe that's just what happens when a non-European language is cynically made to fit into preconceived notions regarding European grammar/logic by course creators who are too condescending to believe a native European-language-speaker could put in the effort to learn something too different from what they're used to.
That said, you never learn a language just by doing a course, anyway; you're going to have to interact with Arabic over a prolonged period of time until you internalise it if you're really serious about mastering the language. And if you do so, there's no need to fret, because the Arabic in your brain will "equalise" over time to the average of all the sources you learn from. All English speakers have peculiarities in the way they talk, but I'm now at a stage with my English where I can tell those idiosyncrasies for what they are, you know, so they simply enrich my language without making it deviate too much.
So for now just go with the flow is the tl;dr of it all!
Is "a kind grandma and a kind grandpa" correct? I have been using the grandpa/ma nouns instead of grandfather/mother and its been marked correct on the other questions.
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Estoy haciendo la oracion bien y me esta dando error. A kind grandmother and a king grandfather