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You are from where, Zeina? Was not accepted. It should be if for no other reason it is the verbatim translation. :)
Nope, In English this is a wrong order for a sentence, you should start the question with WHERE Are you from.
Because the sentence stresses Zeina by starting with YOU the other variant, you are from where, is actually more in line with the Arabic original
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Not necessarily true. "You are from where?" could, for example, be used if one didn't catch what she said originally. It's used to stress "where" as opposed to "you."
"You are from where?" Can be conversational and understood, but is not formally grammatically correct.
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Bonjour, Bonjour689181! Verbatim translations are often wrong translations. Languages rarely map onto each other word for word.
Yes, that is the common question من اين انت, But for emphasizing purposes sometimes you start a sentence with You for example you ask a group of people where are they from and one of them he was silence, you would say (YOU! WHERE ARE YOU FROM? ).. Also in Arabic we are not really strict about sentence order
So, could anybody answer? The version with 'انت' in front sounds to me as if it puts more focus on 'you', something along the lines of 'As for you, where are you from?' The neutral word order would be 'من اين انت' then?
Min ayna anti Where are you from
But Min ayna anti ya zaynab Where are you from zaynab
I knew what Duo wanted (the "where" was capitalized so I knew that was Duo's chosen first word))—in fact, I frequently make correct guesses without having any idea what the content of the sentence is, because of grammatical clues; I still feel that "from Where are you, Zeina?" is just as defensible (and as much as "You are from where?"—what changes is the emphasis . . . like, I expected Zeina to be from Beirut, and she tells me, she is from Upper Bavaria.
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EvemarieMo, anyone who said, "From where are you?" would be recognised as a foreigner. I think we learn from this exercise that Arabic word order is less rigid than English.
Exactly, the Arabic word order is more or less treated than in English. and the Harakats helps to understand the wanted meaning of the sentence. that's why it's very important to use the correct harakat and pay attention to them..(especially when reading Qouran and poems)
You are absolutely wrong. Both versions are correct—only, mine is more formal, yours more relaxed
Where are you from zeina?..... Its arabic is... This.. من اين انت يا زينة؟. But my this ans. Is wrong.. Why!.. Why این is later than انت.. Is both are correct or wrong.. Because we learn previous.. Skills... من این انت یا عمر... Etc.
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Could someone explain, please, why DL rejected what I wrote?: "From where are you, Zeina?" As far as I know, mine is a totally correct translation. Thank you.
