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Numbers 0–10, age

Unit 5 · Part B · Egyptian Arabic A1 (Beginners)
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Numbers 0 to 5

Egyptian Arabic A1 · Unit 5
GoalSay and read the numbers 0 to 5 and ask «how many?».
New words
صِفْر (ṣifr) · zero, 0وَاحِد (wāḥid) · one, 1اِتْنِين (itnēn) · two, 2تَلَاتَة (talāta) · three, 3أَرْبَعَة (arbaʿa) · four, 4خَمْسَة (khamsa) · five, 5كَام؟ (kām?) · how many?
Explanation

Egyptian numbers are words that you say one by one: 0 to 5 first. Arabic digits look different from ours: ٠ ١ ٢ ٣ ٤ ٥. Zero is a small dot ٠, and five is a round shape ٥. The letters of a word go right to left, but a number written with digits goes left to right, as in English. ث is said t in Egyptian, so 3 is talāta, not thalātha. To ask «how many?» say كَام (kām) and count.

DigitArabicSay it
٠صِفْرṣifr
١وَاحِدwāḥid
٢اِتْنِينitnēn
٣تَلَاتَةtalāta
٤أَرْبَعَةarbaʿa
٥خَمْسَةkhamsa
Worked examples
Count from zero to five. Press each card.
Count the four stars aloud: وَاحِد، اِتْنِين، تَلَاتَة، أَرْبَعَة. The last number is the answer.
Omar

كَام؟

Salma

اِتْنِين.

Omar

تَمَام.

Omar points at two cups and asks how many. Press each line.
Class activity

Count things at home out loud: your fingers, the cups in the kitchen, the chairs in a room. Use only 0 to 5. Then write the digits ٠ ١ ٢ ٣ ٤ ٥ on paper three times each, left to right, and say each one as you write it.

Practice
1
Read the digit ٣ aloud. Which Arabic word is it?
2
Count the cups and say the number in Arabic.
3
Two digits look like a dot and a circle: ٠ and ٥. Which one is zero? Say its name.
4
How many books are in the picture? Say it in Arabic.
5
Write «four» in Arabic.