Learn Arabic › B2 › ماشِي
ماشِي
walking, going (on foot) /ˈmaː.ʃiː/
nounB2#4028 most common
Also: going along, moving, OK, fine (colloquial)
Example sentences
أنا ماشي إلى المدرسة كل يوم.
I walk to school every day.
هي ماشية مع صديقتها في الحديقة.
She is walking with her friend in the park.
هل أنت ماشي إلى البيت الآن؟
Are you walking home now?
كانوا ماشين في الشارع عندما بدأ المطر فجأة.
They were walking in the street when the rain suddenly started.
الأمور ماشية على ما يرام رغم كل الصعوبات التي واجهناها.
Things are going fine despite all the difficulties we faced.
ظل ماشيًا على نفس الطريق لسنوات دون أن يغيّر اتجاهه، رغم كل الإغراءات.
He kept walking the same path for years without changing direction, despite every temptation.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ماشٍ | ماشونَ |
| Genitive | ماشٍ | ماشينَ |
| Accusative | ماشِيًا | ماشينَ |
| Vocative | يا ماشي | يا ماشون |
Word family
مشىto walk, to go (past)
يمشيwalks, is walking (present)
مِشْيةgait, way of walking
مَمْشىwalkway, path for walking
مُشاةpedestrians, infantry (plural)
Etymology
Maashi comes from the Arabic root m-sh-y, which carries the sense of walking or going. It takes the fa'il pattern, a common Arabic template for an active participle, the form that describes someone doing an action or being in an ongoing state. Arabic belongs to the Semitic language family rather than the Indo-European one, so it has no Proto-Indo-European ancestor. In everyday Egyptian and Levantine speech, the word drifted from its literal sense of walking toward the looser meaning of things going fine or okay.
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