Levantine Arabic Question: ما انا
hello

I have seen sometimes in spoken levantine arabic (and in egyptian) people say ما before انا

it does not seem to be negating anything. can someone please explain it to me?

here below are some examples:
in this video, it is the first thing she says:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLzZateG8Bg

also, in this Nancy Ajram song (in egyptian dialect):
اه ما انا غاوية اتعب ياناس عيونى علشان الحب صدقونى
ما انا لو حبيت تابت عيونى يعنى ما اجرمتش

here is a link to the entire lyrics to the song
http://lyricstranslate.com/en/ok-ok.html-9

thank you

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Levantine Arabic Question: ما انا
hello

I have seen sometimes in spoken levantine arabic (and in egyptian) people say ما before انا

it does not seem to be negating anything. can someone please explain it to me?

here below are some examples:
in this video, it is the first thing she says:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLzZateG8Bg

also, in this Nancy Ajram song (in egyptian dialect):
اه ما انا غاوية اتعب ياناس عيونى علشان الحب صدقونى
ما انا لو حبيت تابت عيونى يعنى ما اجرمتش

here is a link to the entire lyrics to the song
http://lyricstranslate.com/en/ok-ok.html-9

thank you

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You are right, this ما doesn't negate the sentence.
It's used mostly when you're explaining (reason, what you're doing...etc)
I think you can't translate it into English, so the best way is to pay attention when it's used. And try to use it in notebook entries, if it's unnatural, people will correct you.

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It's just a complementary word in Egyptian Language, here in this song, and it has nothing to do with!
And it differs from the negative case, as I commented above.

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shihana, here, in his example, it has nothing to do with, just a complementary word in Egyptian Language.
But your examples are negative sentences as you said.
They're different!

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I'm agreed with this explanation of who is above me

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In the two sentences you wrote in arabic the closest meaning to ما I think is an exclamation mark ( ! )