Said to a womanNative speaker
In Emirati Arabic, “You need to sleep as much as the child does” is إنتِ تِحتاجين تنامين مِثِل طِفلِچ (intee tihtaajeen itnaameen mithil tiflich).
إنتِ تِحتاجين تنامين مِثِل طِفلِچ
You need to sleep as much as the child does. (to a woman)
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This is how you'd say it to a woman. Emirati often changes the ending for a man 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.
Source: DLIFLC Emirati Medical Language Survival Kit (2007). Credits and licences