"زَوْجي مَحْمود"

Translation: my husband Mahmoud

[laszabine]

Can this also mean "My husband is Mahmoud"?

[_FiX_]

yes, if used as an independent sentence rather than a phrase.
(For example as an answer to: who is your husband?)

[phuvtuo]

The Arabic needs a period to be a sentence.

[sue101]

why can not you say: my husband is Mahmoud?

[phuvtuo]

There was no period at the end of the Arabic words. Just like in English. A sentence ends with a period.

[KatieC993112]

Thank you. Or full stop, as we call it in England.

[KatieC993112]

Yes, but surely punctuation is a peripheral thing. In English, the essence of a sentence is that it should have a verb. I gather that is not the case in Arabic, since you have so-called nominal sentences. Is there an element in Arabic that guarantees that a group of words form a sentence?

[UmmeSalma506682]

Teşekkurler

[PrakashRao54140]

Why Duolingo accepts only spelling "Mahmoud", there are many ways to spell. Sometimes, I wonder whether I am learning English or Arabic!