The Two Boys and the Walnut

إِذَا كَسَرْتَ الْجَوْزَةَ وَجَدْتَ فِيهَا لُبًّا.

idhā kasarta-l-jawzata wajadta fīhā lubban

When you crack a walnut, you find a kernel inside it.

إِذَا دَخَلَ الْمُعَلِّمُ وَقَفَ الْوَلَدُ.

idhā dakhala-l-muʿallimu waqafa-l-waladu

When the teacher comes in, the boy stands up.

إِذَا رَجَعَ أَبِي مِنَ السُّوقِ أَكَلْنَا التُّفَّاحَ.

idhā rajaʿa abī mina-s-sūqi akalna-t-tuffāḥa

When my father returns from the market, we eat the apples.

بَيْنَمَا أَنَا فِي الْمَطْبَخِ إِذَا بِقِطَّةٍ عَلَى الْمَائِدَةِ.

baynamā anā fi-l-maṭbakhi idhā bi-qiṭṭatin ʿala-l-māʾidati

While I was in the kitchen, suddenly there was a cat on the table.

بَيْنَمَا هُمَا يَأْكُلَانِ إِذَا بِأَبِيهِمَا قَدْ وَقَفَ عِنْدَ الْبَابِ.

baynamā humā yaʾkulāni idhā bi-abīhimā qad waqafa ʿinda-l-bābi

While they were eating, suddenly there was their father standing at the door.

بَيْنَمَا الْوَلَدَانِ يَأْكُلَانِ التُّفَّاحَ دَخَلَتْ أُمُّهُمَا.

baynama-l-waladāni yaʾkulāni-t-tuffāḥa dakhalat ummuhumā

While the two boys were eating the apples, their mother came in.

بَيْنَمَا أَنَا أَكْتُبُ سَمِعْتُ أَخِي فِي الْحَدِيقَةِ.

baynamā anā aktubu samiʿtu akhī fi-l-ḥadīqati

While I was writing, I heard my brother in the garden.

مَا هٰذِهِ تُفَّاحَةٌ بَلْ رُمَّانَةٌ.

mā hādhihi tuffāḥatun bal rummānatun

This is not an apple but a pomegranate.

لَا، بَلِ الْجَوْزَةُ لِي.

lā, bali-l-jawzatu lī

No, rather the walnut is mine.

مَا أَكَلْتُ التُّفَّاحَةَ بَلْ أَكَلْتُ الْجَوْزَةَ.

mā akaltu-t-tuffāḥata bal akaltu-l-jawzata

I did not eat the apple; rather, I ate the walnut.

قَدْ أَكَلَ الْوَلَدُ التُّفَّاحَةَ.

qad akala-l-waladu-t-tuffāḥata

The boy has (already) eaten the apple.

قَدْ سَمِعْتُ هٰذَا مِنْ أَبِي.

qad samiʿtu hādhā min abī

I have heard this from my father.

قَدْ رَجَعَ أَبِي مِنَ السُّوقِ وَمَعَهُ تُفَّاحٌ.

qad rajaʿa abī mina-s-sūqi wa-maʿahu tuffāḥun

My father has come back from the market with apples.

وَقَفَ عِنْدَهُمَا رَجُلٌ قَدْ سَمِعَ الْمُشَاجَرَةَ.

waqafa ʿindahumā rajulun qad samiʿa-l-mushājarata

A man who had heard the quarrel stopped beside them.

An indefinite noun followed directly by a describing clause, as in lesson 28.

أَمَّا الْقِشْرَةُ فَلَكَ وَأَمَّا اللُّبُّ فَلِي.

amma-l-qishratu fa-laka wa-amma-l-lubbu fa-lī

As for the shell, it is yours; as for the kernel, it is mine.

أَمَّا الْجَوْزَةُ فَحُلْوَةٌ وَأَمَّا قِشْرَتُهَا فَمَا هِيَ طَعَامٌ.

amma-l-jawzatu fa-ḥulwatun wa-ammā qishratuhā fa-mā hiya ṭaʿāmun

As for the walnut, it is sweet; as for its shell, it is not food.

أَمَّا الْوَلَدُ الْأَوَّلُ فَأَكَلَ التُّفَّاحَةَ وَأَمَّا الثَّانِي فَأَكَلَ الْجَوْزَةَ.

amma-l-waladu-l-awwalu fa-akala-t-tuffāḥata wa-amma-th-thānī fa-akala-l-jawzata

As for the first boy, he ate the apple; as for the second, he ate the walnut.

أَمَّا أَنَا فَجَائِعٌ.

ammā anā fa-jāʾiʿun

As for me, I am hungry.