sudanese Dialect
sudanese Dialect
The Essential Arabic Verb Packs
Learn all the Arabic verbs you need to speak fluently in every conversation.
Beginner
How Sudanese speakers say there is or isn’t something
conversation
Essentials
If you ever want to tell a person in Sudan that there is or isn’t something, here’s how you can do it.
New words:
- There is
- There isn’t
Sample sentences:
- Is there a cafe near here?
- Is there a dog in the park?
- There isn’t any money.
Craig
To say there is, you can say either توجد (tujad) for feminine nouns or يوجد (yujad) for masculine nouns, followed by the noun that you’re talking about. To say there isn’t, just prepend the whole sentence with لا. Example:
لا توجد مشكلة
There is no problem
Joel Barrott
That is MSA which differs greatly from many of the Arab dialects. Dialects such as Sudanese and Levantine often use في as an equivalent of يوجد instead.
في الفصحى هناك مثير من الخلافات بين اللهجات العربية
Shelley Thomaseec
Shouldn’t “cafe” be more like “cahwa”?
Joel Barrott
“Qahwa” is coffee, where as cafe (the place of drinking coffee) is “maqha”. Keep in mind that some dialects, such as Levantine, often change the sound of the ق (qaf) from a “q” to either a hamza or hard “g” sound.
Joel Barrott
and I should add that in Sudanese dialect, the ق is pronounced more like a hard “g” than the typical MSA-based “q/c” sound.