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🇪🇬 Egyptian Arabic · Fluency Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 15 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The lift and the bride

The lift has stopped again, so on the stairs Sayed tells Leo the day it stuck with the bride between two floors: the groom was about to climb in his suit, Sayed nearly called the mechanic, and the walls have ears.

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THE STORY

The stairs of the Mansours' building in Heliopolis, a weekday afternoon, the lift out of order. Sayed, the doorman, and Leo say the polite you to each other; Sayed calls Leo engineer.

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وَاقِف تَانِي, زَيّ يُوم العَرُوسَة.WAA-'if TAA-ni, zayy yoom il-3a-ROO-sa.Stopped again, like the day of the bride.
عَرُوسَة إِيه يَا عَمّ سَيِّد?3a-ROO-sa eeh ya 3amm SAY-yid?Which bride, Sayed?
بِنْت الرَّابِع, يُوم فَرَحْهَا.bint ir-RAA-bi3, yoom fa-RA7-ha.The fourth floor's girl, on her wedding day.
وِالعَرِيس كَان فِين?wil-3a-REES kaan feen?And where was the groom?
كَان هَيِطْلَع.kaan ha-YIT-la3he was about to climb
تَحْت, وِكَان هَيِطْلَع السَّلاَلِم بِالبَدْلَة.ta7t, wi-KAAN ha-YIT-la3 is-sa-LAA-lim bil-BAD-la.Downstairs, and he was about to climb the stairs in his suit.
وِحَضْرِتَك عَمَلْت إِيه?wi-7ad-RI-tak 3a-MALT eeh?And what did you do?
كُنْت هَاكَلِّم.kunt ha-KAL-limI nearly called, word for word I was going to call
كُنْت هَاكَلِّم المِيكَانِيكِي, بَسّ اِفْتَكَرْت.kunt ha-KAL-lim il-me-ka-NEE-ki, bass if-ta-KART.I nearly called the mechanic, but then I remembered.
وِالعَرُوسَة خَرَجِت?wil-3a-ROO-sa KHA-ra-git?And the bride came out?

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