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English term or phrase:	since I was this big
Arabic translation:	منذ كنت طفلا صغيرا
Entered by:	Nadia Ayoub

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22:39 Dec 17, 2008

English to Arabic translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Media / Multimedia

English term or phrase: big

Just so excited mate. I can’t believe I’m going to Komodo island. I’m going to be seeing Komodo dragons. I’ve wanted to do this since I was this big. It’s going to be great

Dr. Ola KudoZ activity Questions: 464 (7 open) (1 without valid answers) (4 closed without grading) Answers: 124 Egypt
Local time: 14:56

منذ كنت طفلا صغيرا

Explanation:
since I was this big: منذ كنت طفلا صغيرا

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Nadia Ayoub
Egypt
Local time: 14:56

Grading comment

Thank you all, all answers are very helpfull.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +5

منذ كانت قامتي لا تتعدى هذا الطول

Fuad Yahya

5 +4

منذ كنت طفلا صغيرا

Nadia Ayoub

4 +3

عندما كنت في مثل هذا الحجم

Tarik Boussetta

5 +1

عندما كنت بهذا الحجم

zax

منذ كنت هكذا

Mostafa MOUHIBE

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

2 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

منذ كنت طفلا صغيرا

Explanation:
since I was this big: منذ كنت طفلا صغيرا

Nadia Ayoub
Egypt
Local time: 14:56
Native speaker of:

Arabic
PRO pts in category: 96

Grading comment

Thank you all, all answers are very helpfull.

5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

عندما كنت في مثل هذا الحجم

Explanation:
عندما كنت في مثل هذا الحجم
We should imagine him demonstrating/showing "the size" !

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Note added at 6 mins (2008-12-17 22:45:57 GMT)
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Sorry مذ\منذأن كنت

Tarik Boussetta
Local time: 12:56
Native speaker of:

Arabic
PRO pts in category: 28

21 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

since I was this big منذ كانت قامتي لا تتعدى هذا الطول

Explanation:
"Big" here cannot be translated in isolation. You need to translated the whole phrase as a unit.

Fuad Yahya
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

English
PRO pts in category: 192

12 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

عندما كنت بهذا الحجم

Explanation:
*

zax
Local time: 08:56
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

English
PRO pts in category: 8

17 hrs confidence:

منذ كنت هكذا

Explanation:
the body language should be imagined in this context

Mostafa MOUHIBE
Morocco
Local time: 12:56
Native speaker of:

Arabic
PRO pts in category: 4

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Changes made by editors

Dec 20, 2008 - Changes made by Nadia Ayoub:
Created KOG entry	KudoZ term => KOG term
Dec 18, 2008 - Changes made by Alaa Zeineldine:
Level	Non-PRO => PRO
Dec 18, 2008 - Changes made by Alaa Zeineldine:
Level	PRO => Non-PRO
Dec 17, 2008:
Kudoz queue	In queue => Public

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