"Tamer is Syrian American."

Translation: تامِر أَمريكِيّ سورِيّ.

[johnnysabu]

Shouldn't the countries be the other way around in Arabic if you're trying to say someone is Syrian-American? The Arabic version makes it sound like they are American-Syrian. Please explain the concept if I'm wrong. Thanks.

[_FiX_]

Adjectives are sort of reversed in Arabic, so:

Tamer is American تامر أمريكي

Tamer is Syrian American تامر أمريكي سوري

Mind you, common usage also comes into play here...

[MustafaNus2]

I wrote the word order wrong but it accepted it.

[MarksAaron]

Yeah, Arabic adjectives follow their nouns, so when there's multiple adjectives, the order ends up being the mirror image of the English order

[SantoshLam]

I typed تامِر أمريكِيّ سورِيّ and it was marked wrong. I just missed َ the in أ. It's not fair.

[BeijiGuang2]

Is there a difference between أَمَريكِيّ and أَمَركي?

[_FiX_]

both are not correct and sound strange
The accepted ways of saying it are
أمريكي
أمِريكي

(2amriikiyy) (2amiriikiyy)

[AlbertVila.]

Why not أَمْريكيّ, with the ْ ? Isn't it used when a consonant has no vowels?

[Quathia]

Yes, but Duolingo seems to usually not write the ْ