"زَوج جَديد كَريم"
Translation:a generous new husband
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There is no strict order for Arabic adjectives. You can order them from most important to least important though.
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Is there a chance of increasing the size of the Arabic font? It's too small, I have to increase page to 250% to be able to read it.
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Yes. Install this add-on on your browser, the first link is for Firefox, the second for Chrome:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpeebahjckkjfobafhncgmne/
Then use it to run this userstyle:
Duolingo currency you get by learning/achievements/people giving them to you for comments. You can buy certain things like freezes on your streaks.
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In one of the other discussions I found another style that is more similar to true arabic font, but still very readable (not so ridiculously small). I had that on my computer, but with the forced switch to windows 10 I lost it. It was called something like wuhuu, I'm not sure. Could anybody help me with this?
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The nunation in this sentence is wrong: if we say zawj-un, because it is in the nominative, then its adjective, jadeed-un, should also be in the nominative, not jadeed-in, in the genitive, as it is pronounced.
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I hear something like "zawjun" instead of "zawj", and "jadeedn" instead of "jadeed". Could it be that the adjectives have to be separated by an "n" sound?
I was taught that this is a feature of indefinite nouns, for instance a door would be "baabun" but the door would be "al baab"
The "un" sound comes from a vowel mark called "dhammatayn". "Zawj" is the word, but the dhammatayn tells you the status of the word in the sentence. It's all grammar :)
Invisible dammatayn dammah: is the arabic letter "waw"(9)-like symbol above the arabic letter (oe) two of the dammah's make a damatayn (99) and make you pronounce the letter as oen
Yeah I heard it on Google translate too. Someone please confirm if this is optional! Shokran
"a new generous husband" Only in the beginning they'll be so generous (but then you can take a new one again)
Hmm. This is sill beta right? Because jadeed came before kareem and my answer was: a new generous husband. Is there a rule I seemed to miss?
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Switch the adjectives around when translating to English. Think of it this way: the adjectives closest to the noun in Arabic should be closest to the noun in English as well. :)
Since Arabic doesn't use a 'to be' verb with adjectives, could this also translate to "A new husband is generous?"
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That would be a very unnatural way of putting it. We'd normally say something like هُنَاكَ زوج جديد كريم "There is a new husband who is generous."
Could this also be translated as "a new and generous husband", or is the "and" supposed to be represented by something else?
This one is confusing. I am putting meaning of each word, but its coming wrong!
Curious sentence here... It is like some mantra for a girl in an engagement or something like that. From certain asian culture.
It's kind of stereotypical patriarchal those phrases about generous amazing husband for me occidental female.
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I typed "A new husband is generous" and marked wrong. How to differentiate the meanings? Is this, "a generous new husband" only for adjectives? I guess mine should be زوج جديد هو كريم right?
انا اكون عربية ومن سوريا اتعلم اللغة الانكليزية والفرنسية و السويدية و الالمانية هل من سؤال عن لغة العربية(لغة الضاد)
Sedikit aneh,karna jika saya salah maka kata itu saya ingat jawabannya dan jika soap itu terulang maka saya menulis yg sama tapi mengapa malah salah lagi ya
