"كَري مِن هولَنْدا."
Translation:Carrie is from Holland.
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Is she actually from the Province of Holland, or is this a metonym for the Netherlands? If the latter, 'the Netherlands' should probably be the default answer.
Hi, Arab here. هولَنْدا is technically used to mean "Netherlands". Our language does not differ between Holland and Netherlands. For example, if the Dutch national football team is playing a match, we would call them "Hollanda".
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"The Netherlands" is accepted, bare "Netherlands" is not a correct English form. "Holland" is formally wrong but linguistically right.
This course is way too repetitive. How many times do I need to see this same phrase??
I also think it is repetitive for us who already know how to write and read with fluency, but I think the course is great to start from the very very beginning.
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You can always move on to other lessons as soon as you finish the first level of a lesson.
You can also use the checkpoints to test out of several lessons at once, great if you are using Duo for practice or for vocab and don't want the slow introduction
Question: why is it "HollandA"? Likewise, "ScotlandA" why is it adding an A in Arabic?
I think because of the way Arabs used to translate new words into Arabic. They used to replace each letter in the new words with the corresponding letter in Arabic. so Land became landaa.
It's a remnant from Aramaic (from which Arabic morphed); in Aramaic, the definite article is a suffix aleph or he (more often aleph).
Is there a different phrase for The Netherlands? Or is only هولندا used for both?
