"Shadi has a garage."

Translation: عِنْد شادي كَراج.

[tsuj1g1r1]

The sound /g/, found in many European loans, is transcribed differently in different Arab countries. In Egypt, we'd spell the word جراچ, because Standard Arabic /dʒ/ is pronounced /g/ in Egypt. In the Gulf, we'd use ق, so we'd spell it قراج, because Arabic /q/ is pronounced /g/ in the Gulf. In the Levant, we'd spell it غراج, in Morocco, ڭراج, and in Tunisia, ڨراج.

[AnCatDubh]

In the Levant (or at least among Israeli Arabs), the last one would be read ‘varage’.

[tsuj1g1r1]

This applies not just in the Levant, but in most of the Arab world (and many other places that use the Perso-Arabic script), as a matter of fact. But in the Tunisian case, this is a ق with one extra tittle, rather than a ف with two. Word-finally, ڨ and ڤ look different. Traditionally, in the Maghreb (and before that, all over the Arabic-speaking world), Qaaf was written with one tittle above, ڧ, and faa2 with one underneath, ڢ‎, so there wouldn't have been any confusion in any place in the word if that were still the case, but unfortunately, this tradition is only used in Quranic writing nowadays.

[KatieCos]

Is "tittle" the correct word for these dots? It sounds strange. In Matthew 5:18 it says, "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all t hings be accomplished". It sounds either old fashioned or funny to my ears.

[KatieCos]

That's very interesting, tsuj1g1r1. I've pasted it into my notebook. I was particularly interested in the Gulf pronunciation of q as hard g. So that explains why خاشقجي‎ is transliterated Khashoggi, and not Khashoqgi (as I ignorantly thought it should be)? Incidentally, in Gulf pronunciation, is ج a fricative or an affricate? The IPA gives it as an affricate, but Duolingo pronounces it as a fricative.

[CH2nas]

I put شادي عند كراج and was marked correct. However it said I had a typo and should have used عنده، not عند. But عنده wasn’t even one of the options! Furthermore, I see the correct answer as given here does use عبد, but has a different word order! Can anyone explain please?

[hallutama]

I put شادي عنده كراج and it told me I was wrong

[tsuj1g1r1]

Report it; that should be accepted.

[tsuj1g1r1]

In Arabic, when the subject of a nominal sentence (one whose English translation uses verb "to be") is indefinite, the predicate is moved to the beginning of the sentence.

[Li_tap]

Why it accepts both كَرَج and also كَراج?

[Hazelit]

Why is there a full stop at the start of the sentence?

[Away54]

if we see a full stop (".") at the start of the sentence, it's a bug/error -- Arabic isn't interpreted well in the site.