تسير الأمور
“تسير الأمور” (тасиир аль-умуур) — to go on as usual in Arabic. Phrase, level B1. Literally "the matters proceed": life goes on as usual. "To proceed" — to travel and to walk — is said of businesses too; "matters" is the plural of "a command-affair". In a live sentence: “تسير الأمور بلا مشاكل” — Things go on without problems. Written with the characters ت, س, ي, ر, ا, ل, أ, م, و, ر. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Arabic | تسير الأمور |
| Read in Latin letters | тасиир аль-умуур |
| Translation | to go on as usual |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "the matters proceed": life goes on as usual. "To proceed" — to travel and to walk — is said of businesses too; "matters" is the plural of "a command-affair"
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- تسير الأمور بلا مشاكلтасиир аль-умуур бля машаакильThings go on without problems
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “to go on as usual” in Arabic?
«تسير الأمور», read “тасиир аль-умуур”. In a live sentence: “تسير الأمور بلا مشاكل” — Things go on without problems. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters ت, س, ي, ر, ا, ل, أ, م, و, ر.
How is “تسير الأمور” written in Latin letters?
тасиир аль-умуур. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Literally "the matters proceed": life goes on as usual. "To proceed" — to travel and to walk — is said of businesses too; "matters" is the plural of "a command-affair". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.