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Hi friends and Arabic fans ! Today, is the last day of 2011, so we wish you all a Happy New Year. In today’s post I am going to go over the top ten Arabic Blog articles.

     1- The first top post was about the Arabic Numbers from 1 – 100 . You can review the post here.

http://www.transparent.com/arabic/arabic-numbers-1-100/  

      2- The second top post was speaking about Love in the Arabic Language and you can view it here:

http://www.transparent.com/arabic/love-in-arabic/

      3- The third top post was entitled; “Some Arabic Words and Sentences – Part 1: Transliteration”. Here is the link to this blog.

http://www.transparent.com/arabic/common-arabic-words-and-sentences-part-i-transliteration/

      4- The fourth top article was a Love poem by the famous Egyptian poet; Farouk Goweedah.  

http://www.transparent.com/arabic/i-live-in-your-eyes/

       5- The fifth top Arabic Blog Article was dealing with and discussing the Arabic Calligraphy and you can access the article by clicking this link. 

http://www.transparent.com/arabic/?s=Arabic+calligraphy

       6- The sixth top article was explaining the Arabic Diacritics and here is the link.  

http://www.transparent.com/arabic/?p=2018

       7- The seventh top article was about telling the time in Arabic.  

http://www.transparent.com/arabic/telling-the-time/

       8- The top blog article number eight was Fisal’s Dictionary and it was trying to explain the different Arabic derivatives of the word “Love”. You can read these derivatives here.   

http://www.transparent.com/arabic/?p=1942 

       9- The ninth top Arabic article was speaking about the famous city ofAlexandriaand its history. To view the article click on this link.

http://www.transparent.com/arabic/?p=2069

       10- Finally, top article number ten which was a grammatical post trying to wrap-up all information about nouns. To access the blog, click this link.

http://www.transparent.com/arabic/?p=1432

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What is the time?

كم الساعة؟

It is half past ten

الساعة العاشرة والنصف

 

Telling the time in Arabic is very easy. We use ordinal numbers with hours, except one o’clock, as follows:

One O’clock

الساعة الواحدة

Two O’clock

الساعة الثانية

Three O’clock

الساعة الثالثة

Four O’clock

الساعة الرابعة

Five O’clock

الساعة الخامسة

Six O’clock

الساعة السادسة

Seven O’clock

الساعة السابعة

Eight O’clock

الساعة الثامنة

Nine O’clock

الساعة التاسعة

Ten O’clock

الساعة العاشرة

Eleven O’clock

الساعة الحادية عشرة

Twelve O’clock

الساعة الثانية عشرة

 

To say ‘past’ in Arabic, we use ‘و‘ which comes after the hour, so half past two in Arabic would literally be ‘two o’clock and a half’ الساعة الثانية والنصف

past

و

Five past

وخمس دقائق

Ten past

وعشر دقائق

Quarter past

والربع

Twenty past

والثلث

Half past

والنصف

 

To say ’to’ in Arabic, we use ‘إلا which comes after the hour, so ‘quarter to three’ in Arabic would literally be ‘three o’clock less a quarter’ الساعة الثالثة إلا الربع

To

إلا

Five to

إلا خمس دقائق

Ten to

إلا عشر دقائق

Quarter to

إلا الربع

Twenty to

إلا الثلث

 

Now, can you make these expressions in Arabic?

It’s five o’clock.

It’s half past ten.

It’s five to six.

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