Just curious - is there a good Arabic equivalent for the expression "oops!" in English? (As in "Oops! I made a mistake.")
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Badawi dialect:Just curious - is there a good Arabic equivalent for the expression "oops!" in English? (As in "Oops! I made a mistake.")
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Badawi dialect:
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I just want to clarify that this is not used to mean "oops" in Palestinian Arabic.I say this's a decent one for 'oops'.
In that case, I would emphatically advise against using it in Palestinian Arabic.Though the ء is not often pronounced, AFAIK.
أفاء our "afa"I just want to clarify that this is not used to mean "oops" in Palestinian Arabic.
In that case, I would emphatically advise against using it in Palestinian Arabic.We use "afa" as a euphemism for the posterior!
Yes, but in speech there's no difference.![]()
I'm sorry, but I don't know what that means.The "f" in our "afa" is مفخّمة.
I'm sorry, but I don't know what that means.Could you explain?
(I have no idea how your "afa" is pronounced. I was going off of the written form and the transliteration.)
To my ears, that's way too dramatic for "oops."Can we say Way7i
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You can use:May I ask, how do we say "Oops" in MSA?
For example, "Oops, I meant to say "would", not "wood".
Is the best equivalent !اه or something like this?