المِتْرو — "metro, subway (UK: underground)" in Egyptian Arabic
المِتْرو
ilmítru
metro, subway (UK: underground)
- Topic
- cars and other transportation
- Seen in
- 6 of our stories
المِتْرو 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.
فين محطة المترو من فضلك
Feen ma7attet el-metro men fadlak?
Where is the metro station, please?
هي شايفة الناس بتشتري تذاكر المترو عادي.
Heya shayfa el-nas beteshtary tazaker el-metro 'ady.
She sees people buying metro tickets normally.
معلش يا استاذ فين محطة المترو من فضلك
Ma'alesh ya ostaz, feen mahattat el metro men fadlak?
Excuse me, sir, where is the metro station, please?
في النهاية، وصلت منى لميعادها على المترو في الوقت المناسب، وهي بتفكر في كل التحيات اللي سمعتها الصبح ده.
Fil-nehaya, waṣalet Mona le-me3adha 3ala el-metro fil-wa2t el-monaseb, we heya betfakkar fi kol el-taḥeyyat elly seme3etha el-sobḥ dah.
In the end, Mona arrived at her metro appointment just in time, thinking about all the greetings she had heard that morning.
from Mona's Journey in Khan el-Khalili: A Morning Full of Greetings
عايز اروح محطة المترو هي فين لو سمحت
Ayz arooh mahattit el metro hiyya feen law samaht.
I want to go to the metro station, where is it please?
from The Lost Journey
هي قالت امشي يمين وبعدين شمال عند المترو
Hiyya 'alet emshy yemeen w ba'deen shemal 'and el metro
She said 'Go right then left at the metro'