"مَدينَتِك كَبيرة يا سامْية."

Translation: Your city is big, Samia.

[Mi_amas_Noha]

مدينتُكِ

[daswasserfrau]

How come it's sometimes "Samia" and sometimes "Samia(tan)"?

[Away54]

daswasserfrau,

"Yaa Samia(tan)" is a fault of the voice. The correct pronunciation is "Yaa Samia" or "Yaa Samiatu". The later is rare said (even some Arabs don't know it).

[HoushmandR1]

How would you say "Your big city, Samia", as in pointing at Samia's big city?

[AniOhevYayin]

In addition to يا سامْية, it would need the definite article, I think: مدينتك الكبيرة. I'm just a learner, but that is my understanding. Here we have a nominal sentence, which are very common in Semitic languages. Hebrew works similarly: "Your big city" = העיר הגדולה שלך, but "your city is big" = העיר שלך גדולה.

[mc0re]

I always hear Duo saying "kabiro tun", like it is two words. While my understanding is that it is a suffix, and thus shall be pronounced together, as "kabirotun". Or?..

[WaseemJohn]

You're totally right 'Kabiratun' is the correct pronunciation.

[Tiziana10030]

And why there is a sukun on the "m" in Saamiya? I would rather put the short "i" instead

[gravity-falls_22]

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