عِشْرين — "twenty" in Egyptian Arabic
عِشْرين
3išrīn
twenty
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عِشْرين in a sentence
Every sentence below is taken from a story on Parallel Arabic, so you can see how the word behaves in real context rather than in isolation.
الكتاب كان أزرق غامق، بالظبط زي ما أستاذها وصف، بس سعرُه كان مكتوب عشرين جنيه بس.
El ketab kan azraq ghame' bilzabt zay ma ostazha wassaf, bas se'ro kan maktoob 'eshreen geneh bas.
The book was dark blue, exactly as her professor described, but its price was written only twenty pounds.
يمكن لو قعدت استنى عشرين دقيقة تاني يحصل معجزة ونقول امين
yemken law ʾa3adt astanna 3išrīn deʾīʾa tānī yeḥṣal mo3geza w neʾūl amīn.
Maybe if I wait twenty more minutes a miracle will happen and we'll say amen.
منى طالبة عشرين سنة مجبورة تذاكر الدرس ده.
Mona talba ishrin sana, magboura tzakir el-dars dah.
Mona, a twenty-year-old student, is forced to study this lesson.
معاه عشرين جنيه بس.
ma'ah 'eshreen geneh bass.
He has only twenty pounds.
المشكلة إن مفيش حد فينا بيرضى على أي كيكة وخصوصا أخويا اللي لازم يدوقها عشرين مرة
El moshkela en mafish had fina biyirda 3ala ay keika w khosousan akhouya elli lazim yedu'ha 3eshreen marra.
The problem is that none of us approves of any cake, especially my brother who must taste it twenty times.
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