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Mush vs. maa? negation in Arabic | ||
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| maya_star17 Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5857 days ago 269 posts - 291 votes  Speaks: English*, Russian*, French, Spanish Studies: Japanese | Message 1 of 3 03 April 2009 at 11:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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In colloquial (Levantine) Arabic, what's the difference between mush and maa? What are the rules for creating "negative" sentences?
The text I'm using (Colloquial Arabic, Levantine) offers the following sentences but does not explain the difference in negation: Saleem mush hawn - Salim isn't here il-awlaad maa kataboo makaateeb - the boys didn't write letters I get the feeling that mush is for present tense and maa is for the past, but I want to double check. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| maya_star17 Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5857 days ago 269 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English*, Russian*, French, Spanish Studies: Japanese | Message 3 of 3 04 April 2009 at 3:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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