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"وَعَلَيْكُمُ ٱلْسَّلام! كَيْفَك يا مُحَمَّد؟"
Translation:And upon you be peace! How are you, Mohamed?
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"And upon you be peace" is very strange in English. "Peace be upon you"would be more accepted.
I agree. Also, "peace be with you", which is what we actually say. Here, I think the waaw is a "waaw of swearing" and doesn't really mean "and" in English. It's more like "O" (as in "O hark the herald angels sing").
I agree, too. This translation isn't even trying to be idiomatic: nobody says that peace is upon anyone in English. This makes answering these questions into a guessing game: I am supposed to guess how someone who doesn't know English very well would translate the Arabic into English.
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I wrote "And may peace be upon you, how are you Mohamad?" but it considered it wrong
There is no "كيفك" in formal language, it is very very colloquial. It must be كيف حالك.
Plus the english translation is awkwark, it is a literal translation
Exactly. Pretty sure some form of "Hello" or "Greetings" should be accepted as well, since that's more how the phrase is used.
Hi your self is also correct. I haven't heard "upon you be peace" It is so odd
I think you are so rigid that it makes me cry! This phrase does not even have a "be" because there is no Arabic equivalent!
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"And upon you peace" should be an acceptable phrasing, especially because it is a literal translation! Especially when three questions later "وَعَلَيْكُمُ ٱلْسَّلام!" accepted the translation of "And upon you peace".
other places i dis not write "BE upon,..." and it was correct. Duo needs to get his stuff straight. to BE, or not to BE. lmao. still luv ya though Duo!
Perhaps because it's a traditional English rendering of the name, and some people still use it.
من يحتاج تعلم اللغة العربية بالمحادثة انا مصري ويمكننى ان اعلمك العربية بدون مقابل فقط لنتدارس اللغتين معا راسلني على الايميل التالي على فيسبوك https://www.facebook.com/mohamedelgammal47
