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- "زَوج جَديد"
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What is the sound being added between the words? It sounds like a short "oon".
It's the nominative indefinite ending, -un, which is rarely written, but if it were, it would be written as زوجٌ
Notice how the small symbol above the ج looks like two small وو linked together. The grammar behind when we use what when talking about indefinite things is a bit too involved to explain here, so what I suggest you do is pay really close attention to what you hear while following the Arabic letters with your eyes, and you'll eventually get a feel of what to use when. It takes a long time to acquire this skill, so just be patient and listen to a lot of Arabic while following text every day. You'll get there eventually :-)
PS: We also often drop the sound when reading out loud, so don't worry too much about it.
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But to be fully grammatically correct in this example there should be an -un after "new' (jadidUN) too, right?
When جَدِيد is used with people, doesn't it also mean young? If so, when would this mean young versus a new one? Also, when you're saying "a new husband", do you mean somebody recently got married, or they're a divorcé(e) that has remarried?
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Nope, in Arabic, جديد only means "new" and not "young." It can mean both a new husband as in somebody that a divorcé(e) has gotten married to, or somebody who has just become a husband.
It's curious, I keep seeing comments about people asking about the extra syllable "un" in the audio, but I myself never hear them.....did they change the lesson at some point, or are they showing different versions randomly?
I wish we could choose which ones to retake over, I'm constantly quitting just so I can take certain parts over to make sure I know them
