"an Arab woman and an American woman"

Translation: اِمْرَأة عَرَبِيّة وَامْرَأة أَمْريكِيّة

[hectorlqr]

Why doesn't the second امْرَأة start with اِ ?

[Tim5602]

It's because of the وَ in front of the word. The ا in امرأة doesn't have any sound on it's own. It takes the sound of the word before it.

[Ollie-Benson]

Thanks! Have a lingot!

[ShivaRadha]

That's helpful, but the presence of وَ doesn't still indicate that the ا is pronounced as 2i, does it?

[ElNino931470]

this is the answer to so many questions I've had, thank you

[EReinheimer22]

Thanks, that helps

[Gerardocha108250]

this phrase is turning me crazy is so much repeated !!!

[Rabeeahx]

lol

[alban791667]

I did not recive the letter American in arbic language in that passage

[AminaRamza1]

Yeah, me too

[LaurasAdve]

Anyone else hate this chapter cause im trying to just power through it but its so time consuming

[AniOhevYayin]

I personally like it because it helps me learn the alphabet and get used to the basic syntax (word order) and morphology (change in form with grammatical gender) with adjectives

[benton.1]

I like the exercises, too. I just wish they would slow the sentences down.

[rohema4]

Shouldnt have to explore the comments to be able to hear the sentence

[cantouche]

How to write the small a, the small i and the small u on the arab keyboard ?

[Mubbu2]

The sentence after 'wa' comes first while translating from english to arabic then why is it different here?

[mich858400]

Someone else finding diacritics to small to read ?

[JessicaKab8]

no