- "nelaab b' ettonobil ": I play with a car (meaning the car is an object to which the action is done)
- "nelaab maa papa": I play with daddy (meaning daddy is a subject who does the action along)
Tuesday 29 April 2008
With or With You
Observing Lilia speak different languages makes me realise subtle differences between languages. Example, the preposition "with". In French, German and English, playing "with" someone or "with" a toy is said in the same way. However, there are 2 with words in Arabic: b' and maa
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arabic,
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I'm not bi/multilingual, but I'd love to be (I'm a teenager very interested in languages and language acquisition). I learn French and German at school and I recently noticed 'mit dem Zug' (literally 'with the train' but meaning 'by train'). I thought this was an interesting point.
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