"اِمْرَأة أَمْريكِيّة"
Translation:an American woman
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You are correct. When a noun is used in a sentence or a phrase, you add a "case ending" appropriate to its case. Here the noun "woman" is used in nominative case, therefore "imra'a" becomes "imra'atun". In fully vocalized texts, you'd see a tiny diacritic mark, called dhamma tanween, attached to the end of the word - اِمْرَأةٌ. At the end of a sentence these endings are not pronounced.
And to add to what Yousef said, words ending in ة have a 't' that is normally silent but gets 'activated' when a case ending is added, hence here "2imra2a-t-un". (The 't' is also pronounced in some other contexts, like the 'construct state', but that will come up later I assume). The shape of ة clues you in too: it's like a ه, but with two dots added above to mimic the full 't' letter, ت
I'm really starting to apprechiate the "un" that can be sid after words in standard arabic. Feels like she's starting to talk faster now and I can imagine how the "un" can help you distinguish separate words.
your answer was "an American women" my answer was "An American woman" grammatical error in your answer
I worte same sentence but its showing worong but i did not any mistake in that
What is wrong in my answer? When I write,"An American women" it says that it's,"An American woman". When I write,"An American woman"it says that it's,"An American women". Both spellings of women and woman is okay then why it is wrong.
