Time, Days, and Making Plans
Key Egyptian Arabic vocabulary for telling time, naming days, and arranging to meet.
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الساعة كام؟ — es-sāʿa kām?
What time is it? (literally: the hour how much)
How do you say 4:15?
الساعة أربعة و ربع — es-sāʿa arbaʿa wi rubʿ (quarter past four)
What do و (wi) and إلا (illa) mean in telling time?
و = past (plus minutes), إلا = to (minus minutes)
What does و تلت (wi tilt) mean?
A third past = twenty past
How do you say 10:35?
الساعة عشرة و نص و خمسة — ʿashara wi nuṣṣ wi khamsa (half past ten plus five)
How do you say 7 p.m. with no AM/PM?
الساعة سبعة بالليل — es-sāʿa sabʿa bil-lēl (add part of day: eṣ-ṣubḥ / baʿd iḍ-ḍuhr / bil-lēl)
Name the Egyptian weekend days.
الجمعة (el-gumʿa, Friday) and السبت (es-sabt, Saturday); the week starts Sunday (el-ḥadd)
النهاردة / بكرة / امبارح
en-naharda = today, bukra = tomorrow, imbāriḥ = yesterday
ممكن نتقابل؟ — mumkin nitʾābil?
Can we meet? (nitʾābil es-sāʿa kām? = what time shall we meet?)
أنا فاضي / مشغول
ana fāḍi = I'm free / mashghūl = busy (fem. fāḍya / mashghūla)
