فتح (fatah) — "to open" in Levantine Arabic
فتح
fátaɧ
to open
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Conjugate فتح
Past, present, future and imperative, affirmative and negative.
"to open" in the other dialects
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فتح 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.
لما فتح سامي الكيس، لقى بين حبات الطحين مفتاح مصدي ورسالة قديمة مكتوبة بخط إيد بيعرفه كتير منيح.
Lamma fataH Sami al-kis, la'a bayn habbat al-tHin miftah mSaddi wa-risala qadima maktouba bi-khatt id bi-ya'rifo ktir mniH.
When Sami opened the bag, he found among the grains of flour a rusty key and an old letter written in a handwriting he knew very well.
انصدم رامي، صاحب القهوة العصبي اللي عمرو خمسة وتلاتين سنة، لما فتح خزانته بشارع الحمرا واكتشف إنو عمال التوصيل ما جابوا كياس البن.
Insadam Rami, saheb el ahwe el asabi elli amro khamse w tlatin sene, lamma fatah khazanto bi sharee el Hamra w iktashaf inno ommal el tawsil ma jabu kiyas el bon.
Rami, the stressed thirty-five-year-old coffee shop owner, was shocked when he opened his cabinet on Hamra street and discovered that the delivery workers did not bring the bags of coffee beans.
اول ما فتح الباب قلتله مساء الخير كيفكَ
Awwal ma fataḥ al-bāb qultillo masāʾ al-khayr kayfak
As soon as he opened the door, I said to him 'Good evening, how are you?'
from A Visit to My Uncle
فتح الشباك وسمع صوت العصافير
fataḥ esh-shubbak w sima' sowt el 'asaafeer.
He opened the window and heard the sound of birds.
from A Busy Morning
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