Say How Are You in Arabic
Edited by Hotelier, priya, Eng, Rushell
Hello, and thank you for watching VisiHow. Today, we will learn how to write and pronounce a short dialogue in Arabic asking someone how they are doing. This is specifically for beginning non-native speakers of the language, and we will use some extra notes, but mostly the modern standard Arabic form of the language. There may be many ways that you can say this depending on where you are at.
Steps
- 1The traditional modern standard Arabic form of "How are you?" is "kayf al hâlu?".
- 2"Kayf" is spelled kaaf, yaa, faa.
- 3Then, for "al hâlu", we have "al", which is alif, laam, followed by haa, alif, laam with a dhamma.
- 4Again, it is "kayf al hâlu?". This is extremely proper, and perhaps not very common to actually hear people speaking this way.The question mark at the end will go backwards.
- 5One very common way that we will hear people speaking is to say either, "kayfa haluka" or "kayfa haluki".
- 6"Kayfa" in this case will be the same as "kayf".
- 7We have haa, laam, and ending kaaf. Again, it is "kayfa haluk".For "haluk", we will copy a little bit from above in "hâlu", but without the "al".
- 8Let's write it a second time as well so we can see the difference between the masculine and feminine form.
- 9That makes it "kayfa haluka".In order make "kayfa haluk" masculine, we will add a fatha above the ending kaaf.
- 10In order to make this "kayfa haluki", we will add a kasra below the ending kaaf.
- 11Again, the masculine form is "kayfa haluka".
- 12The feminine form is "kayfa haluki".
- 13The first way is, "bikhayr".The answer, "I'm fine" may be heard two ways.
- 14"Bikhayr" will be written baa, haa, yaa, ra with a kasra underneath the baa to make the "bih" sound.
- 15It can also be used as a way of saying that someone is doing okay.We may also hear "alhamdulillah", which means roughly, "thanks to God".
- 16Then, it is laam, laam, and haa."Alhamdulillah" would begin "al", then haa, miim, daal for "alhamdul".
- 17Again, altogether it is pronounced "alhamdulillah".We will have a dhamma on the ending daal.
- 18"Wa ant" is the general form, so we will write it twice."And you?" is said in two ways depending if we are asking a man or a woman.
- 19In brief, in order to make this "wa anta", we need a fatha above the taa. Again, it is "wa anta" for a man.In order to see exactly the difference between the masculine and the feminine form, view the video on Arabic personal pronouns that is on this website.
- 20For a woman, it is "wa anti", so we will add a kasra below the ending taa.
- 21Again, it is "wa anta" for a man.
- 22"Wa anti" is for a woman.
- 23If we are a woman speaking with another woman, we can ask, "How are you?" commonly by saying "kayfa haluki".
- 24She can answer, "bikhayr wa anti?".
- 25If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please leave them in the space below.This concludes today's tutorial on how to ask and respond to "How are you?" in the Arabic language.
Video: Say How Are You in Arabic
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