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Nice post, but the Arabic in example B (‘Let’s have coffee together then’) is incorrect — the dangers of copying…
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Hi Dalziel, thank’s for telling me.
Nice post, but the Arabic in example B (‘Let’s have coffee together then’) is incorrect — the dangers of copying…
Amazing! I had no idea about this 😅
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The Aleph at the end of third-person plural verbs is there for p… https://t.co/BPIxkfPNpr
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As in the exam…
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Hi Dalziel, thank’s for telling me.