Ahlan wa sahlan! In this video we're going to talk about how to express the idea of
'wanting' in Arabic dialects. In formal Arabic, we can express this idea using a
conjugated verb. One verb that's often used is يُريد, present tense
third-person singular conjugation for هو. هو يريد، أنا أريد، أنت تريد
etc., using the prefix-suffix combinations that we've encountered in
our other work on present tense verbs. However, the ways in which this idea of
'wanting' is expressed is one of the things that varies most from dialect to
dialect. So what we're going to do right now is we're going to focus on how
to express the same idea in Levantine and Egyptian Arabic. In Levantine, we
actually use a suffix attached to a stem. the stem here is بدّ, and you'll notice
that in this chart of suffixes the suffixes are virtually identical to the
possessive suffixes that we've also learned in other contexts. اسمي اسمِك، اسمَك,
so if I want to express the idea of 'wanting,'
if I want to say for example, 'I want tea,' I could say بدّي شاي. 'I want
tea,' or 'she wants tea,' I could say بدّها شاي.
we want tea, the both of us, بدّنا شاي. and as with other, mmm, 'real' verbs, you
might say, we don't need to use a pronoun at the beginning; I don't need to say
أنا بدّي شاي, because this 'yaa' tells my interlocutor beyond a shadow of a doubt
that I'm talking about myself. In Egyptian, the story's a little bit
different. In Egyptian, it makes sense to think of describing the subject using an
adjective, someone 'is wanting,' I am wanting, you are wanting, he is wanting.
And we use the stem عايز or sometimes you'll also hear عاوز, depending on
who's talking and what neighborhood they're from, perhaps. So we want to
describe someone or something, 'the wanter,' using adjectives, as we've learned. So if
I were going to describe myself, I would say أنا عايز, as a grammatically
masculine entity, عايز, but if I were describing a woman who wants something I
would say عايزة, right I would add a 'taa marbuuTa', so that we have that feminine
adjectiveal agreement. So if I wanted to say 'she wants tea,' for example I could
say هي عايزة شاي, or if we both wanted tea, إحنا عايزين شاي, using that sound
plural, right, that regular plural form that you've encountered elsewhere. We're
probably not going to see the 'waaw-nuun' variation, because that's strictly formal
Arabic. In Egyptian, it's a little more common to hear a pronoun depending on
the context, since we might not always know who's being referred to, right? If I
say عايزة, I could be talking to an أنتِ, I could be talking to a هي, right, it
might not be entirely clear, so if I want to say 'she wants tea,' I could say 36 00:04:08,430 --> 00:00:00,000 هي عايزة شاي.