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It's new as in new. While it's a bit weird on its own. In a context like this it can be understood like: "Our old donors are stingy. But hey, Sam is new and generous" :)
So, I understand that -un is the indefinite nominative indicator for nouns. But I also hear it in between جَديد and وَكَريم. What is its function there? Is there an implied noun like "Sam is (a) fun and generous (one)"? Or is it just an audio error because the course is new and problems are still being identified?
It's an audio error. In fact ignore all the suffixes you hear here, they are wrong in many cases, and they are avoided in spoken dialects anyway.
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It is the nunation. Nunation is attached to nouns and adjectives.
Undate: They have now taken the nunation off the words.
Yup!
New: جَديد And: وَ Generous: كَريم
It seems وَ gets tacked onto the front of the second word.
Yes. But remember that the "Fatha" ( َ ) is absent and implied in general colloquial spelling, so when learning, you'll see it with that marking to show that it is pronounced with "ah" following it.
It sounds strange in English. I would split the sentence in two. "Sam is a new member. Sam is generous." or "Sam is new here. Sam is generous."
Why is Jadeed with an -un, and kareem without any indicator? A bit confused on that one. Aren't they both adjectives? (P.S weren't these indicators only for nouns?)
the indicator is ommited for the last adjective, and names don't need them at all
ارجو اضافة باقي الارقام التي تمثل اصواتا باللغه الانجليزية (2=ء)(3=ع)('3=غ)(4=ذ)(5=خ)(6=ط)('6=ظ)(7=ح)(8=ق)(9=ض)('9=ض)
سام جديد وكريم ?! الجملة تتحدث عن سام انه شخص جديد " جديد هنا ، مثل الموظف الجديد " و لديه صفة الكرم.
