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- "شادي مُتَرجِم عُمانِيّ."
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"....an/....ian/....ish" are English suffixes to indicate nationality, not Arabic suffixes. But, for someone from Oman, we also say "Omani" in English.
Not really, there are some example that are not Arabic: Pakistani, Israeli, etc.
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If it wasn't accepted, then the word "interpreter" has not been programmed as a correct answer. You can click on "Report" and select "My answer should be accepted" and maybe the developers will add it as a correct translation.
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In Arabic, adjectives come after the noun they modify: "Shadi translator Omani". In English, adjectives come before the nouns they modify: "....Omani translator".
In general for statements like "X is a Y" where both elements are nouns or noun phrases, the order is the same as in English - just that there's no verb equivalent to 'is' or 'are'.
It's like the Romance languages such as Spanish and French insofar as the adjective comes after the noun, e.g., Fr un traducteur espagnol // Sp un carro rojo.
Alif baa taa thaa geem haa kha dal dhal raw za seen sheen sawd dhawd ain gain fa kof cof laam meem nuun ha wow ya
I think when it comes to order of adjectives / predicates, the main descriptor is closer. So with "Shadi is an Omani interpreter" we put interpreter closer to Shadi since it's the main thing, so ".شادي مُتَرجِم عُمانيّ".
