Arabic: An Essential Grammar

اَّمَأ

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ُرو ُّ نل

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ه ُزاَتْجَيَف

ا

ِهِذ

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يِناَمَثِب َةَفاَسَمـْل

81

َةَرْشَع َعْسِتَو َقِئاَقَد

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(9) If we

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suppose that

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a train

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travels

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at a speed of 65 miles per hour,

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day

and

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night,

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it would need

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around 164 years

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to reach the sun. However,

the

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speed of

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the cannon-

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ball is 1,209 miles per hour.

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It would need

eight and a

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half years to reach the sun; but

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light

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traverses this

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distance in eight

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minutes and nineteen

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seconds.

Translate into Arabic:

(1) The sports team won thirteen of the fifteen matches it played during

(the) last year.

(2) How old are you (m.)? I am 22 years old.

(3) In the exam there were thirteen questions: two of them were written

and the other eleven were oral. The student knew the answers to five

of them.

(4) At the beginning of the year three war planes made ten air raids and

dropped 165 bombs and 16 rockets.

(5) A cannon-ball killed the greengrocer and a teacher with five of his

students, wounded seven others and destroyed two houses.

(6) In one day the merchant sold 16 boxes of grapes, 108 boxes of apples

and 57 of oranges. His profit was 121 dinars.

(7) If we add 101 sheep, 331 horses, 17 cows, 33 donkeys, 89 hens and 1

cat, what will the total number of animals be?

(8) If we suppose that a train travels day and night at a speed of 77 miles

per hour, it would need around 164 days for one revolution around the

earth.

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Cardinal

numbers