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- "عِنْد روزا سَمَك."
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I hear it too, it's Ruuz-an. The final ا sometimes has a little mark on top that looks like a doubled form of the stroke for short 'a', and is pronounced 'an'. But, it requires certain grammatical contexts (technically it's accusative indefinite). It wouldn't be correct here. But, I think it's simply the TTS over-predicting when it should be pronounced.
Fish is not a countable noun in every situation. Kinda like how you can't say "I have a water". You differentiate between fish and fishes when talking about different species of fish, which are different fishes.
Yes, though "fishes" used to be acceptable and still sometimes crops up. It is rarely used now but is not actually wrong, just archaic.
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You have to read the Tips and notes section, it is explained there. You find it under the light bulb symbol for each lesson, in this case the lesson would be "Omar is..." . It's only available on the website though, not in the app.
For 'X has a Y' you say 'with X is Y'. عند is 'with', and you don't use the verb 'to be' in the present tense, so 'with Judy jacket' is 'Judy has a jacket'
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The translation to English seems to be "not right". I am not a native speaker but I think it should be "Rosa has A fish".
I'm new to Arabic but a native English speaker. Rose has fish works if she has more than one. I believe Ross has A fish would have sounded like samsk-un. Anyone may correct me if I'm wrong.
My roommate speaks Arabic and says that if Rosa is a female, then you'd have to say "3inda ha", not just "3inda", to make it agree with the gender
They're wrong - عند is a preposition which sits in front of Rosa - 3inda Rosa = with Rosa. You'd have to say 3indaha if it was sitting after Rosa: Rosa 3indaha samak = Rosa, with her is a fish.
