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It never means both. I an Arabic and I confirm it is totally wrong. This site has many errors of translation and grammer.
No. adjectives, nouns and at times adverbs sometimes end in alif with a ❤❤❤❤❤ tanween which does have an "an" sound. The AI isn't able to distinguish between the two. An example is أَهْلاً pronounced ahlan or عَفْوًا as used in the sentence.
It is annoying. There are two possible correct answers, but only one is accepted, although the translation says "excuse me". Both should be accepted as correct. It's also annoying that if you write "you are" and not "you're" it will be marked as wrong
Yeah, we are learning Arabic here not English, grammatical errors in English shuld not be counted here
"عَفْوًا" is corrected as a typo. In fact it is the correct answer. The way used in the duolingo exercise, while a common way because of the way printers worked in the past, is not correct. There is no reason today to not teach it correctly. (In some exercises it is accpeted.)
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Can someone explain why certain words sound like they have a "N" at the end of them? Is this an accent mark that is not shown?
Adjectives, nouns and at times adverbs sometimes end in alif with a ❤❤❤❤❤ tanween which does have an "an" sound. The AI isn't able to distinguish between the two. An example is أَهْلاً pronounced ahlan or عَفْوًا as used in the sentence.
Other times a case ending may result in nunation that has a 'an', 'oon', or 'een' sound based on the grammatical case.
The phrases "you're welcome" and "excuse me" are identical in a number of languages, but not in Arabic. Therefore, the English options do not offer a correct translation.
I have a feeling when the sentence ends with an A ending word eg 3afwan ya rosa... Then "n" sound added ..like Rosan, significies the sentence is complete. Like a fullstop? I could be completely wrong tho. Oooorr the n sound is a second person signifier? I wish there were more arab speakers floating in here
Its just a mistake in the AI. there is not supposed to be a N sound here. Adjectives, nouns and at times adverbs sometimes end in alif with a ❤❤❤❤❤ tanween which does have an "an" sound. The AI isn't able to distinguish between the two. An example is أَهْلاً pronounced ahlan or عَفْوًا as used in the sentence.
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In Oman I was told it means "you are welcome" and it was used as an answer to "thank you". Excuse me wouldn't made have sense in that context....
