How can I tell the difference between the phrase "the teacher in Beirut" and the translation given here "the teacher is in Beirut"?
Yes!
you use a verb after it if you use as a phrase... and also the way you say the phrase and the sentence is different.
I cannot be the only one who has teouble spelling "Beruit". Throw me a bone, Duo.
You never specified a verb in the Arabic sentence...so, why putting an error?
If you read the lesson notes in previous lessons, Arabic like several other languages does not use a copula verb for sentences like this.
But still, as per the other thread on this exercise, this could equally well be a phrase or sentence fragment, rather than a complete sentence, so I suspect OP's attempted answer was not strictly incorrect.
Spelling error only.
Why DUOLINGO do this to me
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