Gilti My family unit you will learn about: bers of the family pronouns (plu) ening possession euline and feminine words g simple questions fo recogrizo these letters: Bing some simple words in Arabic scriptDialogue 1 Q Samira is from Port Said but today she is in Cairo taking part in a surprise student radio quiz. Her family is back home. vuMom(d) SAMIIRA: yaa Hasan! taal Ukhtak fir-radyo! HAsan: ‘ukhti? UMM(1) SAMIIRA: —bi-stir9a. ‘uul Labiiuk ta9%éala! Hasan: baba! baba! ta9éala fsma9 bintak fir-rédy ABU SAMIRA: binti? haat irrédyo hina yaa Hdsan yébni. Usom(1) SaMiRA: Ja’. (Hina hina! ta9Sala inia rid ‘Samara’s MOTHER: Hassan! Come here! Your sister's on the radio! HASSAN: My sister? SAMIRA'S MOTHER: Quickly. Tell your father to come here! Hassan: Dad! Dad! Come and listen to your daughter ‘on the radio! SAMIRA'S FATHER: My daughter? Bring the radio here, Hassan, ‘my son. SAMIRA’S MOTHER: No. We're here! You come to the radio! Vocabulary ta9éala! ‘come here! (fem. ta94ali) ridyo radio. firridyo = on the radio (lit ‘in the radio) bi-sirga quickly wut li. tell... (lit ‘say t0 .."), ul Habiuk = tell your (fem. ‘uli i...) father amas! listen! (em. sendy hhaat! (fem. dati) bring! hina here Note that Arabic does not lke clusters of three consonants such as the kat” in the English word ‘next’ (which would be pronounced ‘nekist if it were an word), If combination of words results in @ consonant cluster, “helping {Sinserted’ So umm + samira s pronounced as wmmi samira, These helping are shown in brackets2 when followed by a name or posessve ending: “ater [of] Samira’, or ‘Samira'sfather* “your brother points Pronouns (plural) ‘You met the singular pronouns. Now here are the plurals: we you (plural) they t there are three words for ‘you’, depending on whether Addressing a male (inta), a female (inti), or a group (mtu). nm ic equivalent of the English possessive pronouns (‘my’, our" etc.) are suffixes joined to the end of a word. For exam. ‘means ‘gir! or ‘daughter’, but bint means ‘my daughter’