Mar 16, 2018 06:51
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This seems to be the title of a television show I came across on YouTube. aku = there is but what does fad mean here? And the whole title?
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| 5 +1 | فد (fad) = redundant particle -untranslatable |
Mohammed Majeed
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| 4 +1 | There is someone |
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فد (fad) = redundant particle -untranslatable
(Fad) is an untranslatable particle. If you look at how my colleague Dr. Osama translated it earlier (there is someone): there is = أكو - someone = Wahed, which is a correct translation, but note that he couldn't translate fad because it's untranslatable. It's like saying in Syrian: في شي واحد
If you do a literal translation, you'll get something like this:
There is [something] someone, which obscures the meaning. You can also say: there is [this] someone. So, the closest to (fad) is either [something] or [this].
HTH
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Note added at 2 hrs (2018-03-16 09:20:50 GMT)
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Oh, of course, I forgot to mention that I am from Iraqi background and this is Iraqi dialect.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2018-03-16 09:25:00 GMT)
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And we as Iraqi's ourselves have struggled to understand what (fad) really means!!
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Note added at 2 hrs (2018-03-16 09:26:48 GMT)
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Iraqis **
If you do a literal translation, you'll get something like this:
There is [something] someone, which obscures the meaning. You can also say: there is [this] someone. So, the closest to (fad) is either [something] or [this].
HTH
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Note added at 2 hrs (2018-03-16 09:20:50 GMT)
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Oh, of course, I forgot to mention that I am from Iraqi background and this is Iraqi dialect.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2018-03-16 09:25:00 GMT)
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And we as Iraqi's ourselves have struggled to understand what (fad) really means!!
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Note added at 2 hrs (2018-03-16 09:26:48 GMT)
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Iraqis **
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