"اِبْني عُمَر وَزَوْجي مَحْمود"

Translation: my son Omar and my husband Mahmoud

[Sameer643882]

Are Mahmoud and Muhammad different names?

[TalhaaKhann8]

Yes

[Susa145706]

Yes but unfortunately the voice is pronouncing Muhammad rather than what is written - Mahmoud. I typed it as Muhammad a couple of times until I enlarged the font on my screen and could see the sukun. Whenever a consonant does not have a vowel, it receives a mark called a sukūn, a small circle which represents the end of a closed syllable (CvC or CvvC). It sits above the letter and no vowel should be pronounced. However, the voice on this does pronounce it which is confusing.

[Yervant]

I'm wondering how this would differ if one were trying to say "My son is Omar and my husband is Mahmoud."?

[momobrika]

Technically correct, but most people would assume the duolingo response (i.e introduction: here is my son omar and my husb... etc) I would say (for your sentence): اِبْني هُوَ عُمَر وَزَوْجي هُوَ مَحْمود. By adding the ' هُوَ ', which means he is, you basically say My son, he is Omar and my husband, he is Mahmoud. This is used when like, maybe, pointing out from a list of names, etc.

[ChrystianThiesen]

For Duolingo, as far as I noticed, complete sentences require a full stop. This exercise has no full stop, so you have to try an incomplete (verbless) sentence/phrase.

[PrakashRao54140]

Too much! Duo is not accepting 'Mamoud' in any other spelling

[Edward931151]

I wrote Mahmood and get it wrong. This is not fair

[Edward931151]

The spelling Mahmoud is a French way of spelling it. In English just Mahmud or Mahmood would be more correct i think