Said to a manNative speaker
In Emirati Arabic, “Hold your breath” is لا تتنفس (laa titnafas).
لا تتنفس
Hold your breath. (to a man)
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 At the doctor, with 251 more like it.
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Source: DLIFLC Emirati Medical Language Survival Kit (2007). Credits and licences