دقائق (daqaa'iq) — "minutes" in Modern Standard Arabic
دقائق
daqaa'iq
minutes
- Topic
- time
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- 3 of our stories
"minutes" in the other dialects
دقائق 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.
بعد عشر دقائق سالت الجرسون كيف حالك يا اخي
Ba'da 'ashri daqa'iq sa'altu al-jarsuna, 'Kayfa haluka ya akhi?'
After ten minutes, I asked the waiter, 'How are you, my brother?'
from Waiting at the Cafe
بعد دقائق ساله الجار القديم عفوا ما اسمك مرة اخرى
Ba'da daqa'iq sa'alahu al-jaru al-qadim 'afwan ma ismuka marratan ukhra
After a few minutes the old neighbor asked him 'Excuse me what's your name again'
لكن في الدقائق الاخيرة احرز فريقه هدفا آخر وفاز بالمباراة
Lakin fi ad-daqa'iq al-akheerah ahraza fareequhu hadafan aakhar wa faaz bi-al-mubaaraah.
But in the last minutes, his team scored another goal and won the match.
from The Match Day
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