PolyLingo
🇸🇦 Arabic
العربيةArabic

Politeness & formality (sound respectful fast)

Formality is one of the fastest ways to sound natural in many languages.

What matters most

Polite phrases are frequent; dialect vs MSA differences are normal.

  • When in doubt, choose the more polite form.
  • Memorize one polite question pattern and reuse it everywhere.
أنتَ هنا.
anta huna
You (masc.) are here.
أنتِ هنا.
anti huna
You (fem.) are here.
هل تتكلم الإنجليزية؟
hal tatakallam al-ingliziyya
Do you speak English?

Mini challenge

Say your ‘Do you speak…?’ sentence in the polite form, then in the casual form (if your language has both).

Mini‑quiz

Mini-quiz
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Which sentence matches “You (masc.) are here.”?