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كيفَك؟

How are you?

How to ask how someone is feeling

Today's lesson is about asking and answering the question "How are you?" in colloquial Levantine Arabic. This is a basic and essential part of everyday conversation.

The most important word for asking how someone is, is the keyword كيف meaning 'how'.

Keywords

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In order to ask someone how they are, you need to add the personal pronoun suffix for that person. For example...

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Comments (3)

  1. Learn Levantine ·

    Isn't also كيف حالَك correct?

  2. Albert ·

    The lesson did start by saying it would teach the colloquial phrase, but “كيف حالَك” is where that comes from

  3. Ella ·

    𝓘𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓪𝓼𝓬𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓯𝓮𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓶𝓮𝓪𝓷 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓪 𝓫𝓸𝔂 𝓼𝓪𝔂𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓴𝓲𝓯𝓯𝓪𝓴 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝓪 𝓫𝓸𝔂 𝓼𝓪𝔂𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓴𝓲𝓯𝓯𝓪𝓴

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