This is a tweet that I've seen a lot today:
"This is becoming the worst tradition: Wake up, check on previous night's events, find out people were getting killed while you slept. #Egypt"
Arabic has a system of words in which each word has three base letters, the combination of which has a certain meaning, even within different words. For example, root ن و م (n, o, m)* indicates sleep.
Verb, Form One: نام (nam): to sleep, also--to be listless, to be numb
Verb, Form Four: انام (anam): to anesthetize
Verb, Form Six: تنآم (tanam): to pretend to be asleep
Verb, Form Ten: استنام (astanam): to let oneself be lulled to sleep, to trust, to acquiesce
Noun: منام (manam): dream
It's a sad day here, and I'm not sure what to do. So I conjugated verbs.
Good night!
*In case you were looking at the Arabic letters really closely and wondered why I told you the letter و was important to the meaning of all of these words but you couldn't find it in any of the words I listed, vowel ا (a) is substituted for vowel و (o) for conjugation reasons.
"This is becoming the worst tradition: Wake up, check on previous night's events, find out people were getting killed while you slept. #Egypt"
Arabic has a system of words in which each word has three base letters, the combination of which has a certain meaning, even within different words. For example, root ن و م (n, o, m)* indicates sleep.
Verb, Form One: نام (nam): to sleep, also--to be listless, to be numb
Verb, Form Four: انام (anam): to anesthetize
Verb, Form Six: تنآم (tanam): to pretend to be asleep
Verb, Form Ten: استنام (astanam): to let oneself be lulled to sleep, to trust, to acquiesce
Noun: منام (manam): dream
It's a sad day here, and I'm not sure what to do. So I conjugated verbs.
Good night!
*In case you were looking at the Arabic letters really closely and wondered why I told you the letter و was important to the meaning of all of these words but you couldn't find it in any of the words I listed, vowel ا (a) is substituted for vowel و (o) for conjugation reasons.
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