Page 54 - The Rough Guide Phrasebook - Egyptian Arabic

centimetre ‘santimetre’
maaayeesh aī fakka

central ra’eesee can you give me change for
a five-pound note? momkin
centre west teddeeni fakkit khamsa
genayh?
English ➜ Arabic
how do we get to the city
centre? izzay newsal li west
el balad?
dialogue
ceramics khazaf
do we have to change
cereal hoboob (trains)? ehna lāzim
nighīyar?
certainly tabaan yes, change at Luxor/no,
it’s a direct train naaam,
certainly not la’ tabaan hanghīyar fi lo’sor/la’, da
atr sareea
chair korsee
changed: to get changed
change (noun: money) sarf ha’aghīyar

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(verb: money) saraf charge (noun) taman

can I change this for ...? (verb) hāsib
momkin aghīyar da
be ...? cheap rekhees

I don’t have any change do you have anything
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