"بوب دُكتور."
Translation:Bob is a doctor.
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There is, but it's not used in the same way as it is in English. When describing someone or something now, it's not used. If we want to talk about how someone or something was in the past, we do use it. For example:
"Bob was a doctor" = بوب كانَ دُكتوراً
In this case, كانَ is the verb "to be" in the past tense, and its presence makes us add the اً at the end, which is pronounced -an (but it's ok if you drop that sound, we often do that when speaking or reading).
Having said that, the order of the words is more flexible in Arabic, and it's actually more natural to say:
كانَ بوب دُكتوراً
That would be دُكتور بوب which is the same word order as English :-)
doesn't it need "ال" to come before (or attached in front of..) Doctor for it to mean Doctor Bob ? so it would read الدكتربوب ?
Mark_albiljiki,
Yes, you're correct!
الدكتور بوب : Professor/Doctor Bob
We can see "الدكتور" in many Arabic Book covers. "Doctor" is written as الدكتور in front of the name as its title.
font to small to read, please increase all fonts of Arabic script so we can see and learn
The way the pronounce bob makes it sound like pop. I thought there wasn't suposed to be a 'p' sound in arabic?
You're correct, Ab60ul! Duolingo prefers to take borrowed words (and not Arabic faSiHa).
هاي قايز ماي نيم از مهند ههههههههه نكته صح اتمنا تفهموها اباي (^_^) Good buys
