Said to a manNative speaker
In Emirati Arabic, “Do you mean "no"?” is تقصُد “لا”؟ (tuqsud laa?).
تقصُد “لا”؟
Do you mean "no"? (to a man)
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This is how you'd say it to a man. Emirati often changes the ending for a woman or a group, and Yani teaches the other forms as Emirati reviewers approve them.
It's in the phrasebook under When you don't understand, with 6 more like it.
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Source: DLIFLC Emirati Medical Language Survival Kit (2007). Credits and licences