for a whole week

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navi tasan

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1-I will not be here for a whole week.

Can't this sentence mean two things:
a-I will be absent for a whole week.

b-I will be here for less than a week.

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As always, context is everything. "Here" must refer to where the speaker is at the time of speaking so that should give the listener a clue.
 

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Can't this sentence mean two things:
a-I will be absent for a whole week.

b-I will be here for less than a week.

Yes, but, as so often, we could remove the ambiguity if it mattered by changing the wording.
 
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