"زَيد مُمتاز."

Translation: Zayd is amazing.

[PetitRagondin]

I wrote "amazing Zayd" as there was no translation showing 'is amazing'. My answer was marked wrong but maybe the definition could suggest 'is amazing' in future.

[StephieRice]

Perhaps it will in the future :)

Remember this though, as this is the grammatical structure for X is Y in Arabic, you see the noun then the descriptor whether it be an adjective or another noun. Often you will need context to know for sure whether its "A bright fish" or "a fish is bright" but its easier than you might expect if you've only seen languages that use explicit copulas before.

[CarstenLu]

„Amazing Zayd“ should be زيد الممتاز

[Corona212]

زيد ممتاز is a complete in Arabic which consists of a mobtada and a khabr, so you should always translate this sentence as Zayd is amazing

[Aaisha3210]

Actually there is no word for is ,an ,a in arabic language

[lufta1]

There is no is in arabic

[Aysha_.]

I wrote "Zayd's amazing" & they said "Zayd is amazing" is the correct one. Lol

[Heike362327]

Same... I guess it is just an error

[mmtali]

It is because they add right answers manually. They probably forgot about some short versions.

[AniOhevYayin]

The mim letter (مُمتاز) looks very similar to Syriac mim. https://www.reddit.com/r/Assyria/comments/44r7g0/differences_between_arabic_and_syriac/

[Away54]

Thanks for the link, AniOhev (or AnaUHibb in Arabic)!

By the way, unfortunately, the male voice from Duolingo gives the wrong pronunciation. According to Standard Grammar, it should be: -- زيدٌ ممتازٌ "zaid(un) mumtaaz(un)" and is not "mumtaazan".

[bastionbal]

Im struggling really badly with the little line above some of the characters and what that does. Sometimes it adds an "i" and sometimes an "a" it seems. Help?

[cohendotan]

The little line above means to add an "a" sound, but it is very close to "e" or "uh".

The little line below means to add an "i" sound.

[andrewilliam69]

am I just getting old or are the scripts really small and hard to read..?

[Janet272057]

I got it right!

[alexaucamp97]

what's the difference between mumtaaz and mumtia

[hajeroualh]

Mumtia is related to something fun
Mumtaz is related to excellence on something

[AzizNekkou]

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[AzizNekkou]

Aeirira

[fatima365865]

Mumtaaz can mean a lot of things like amazing, perfect, etc not only spectacular as the answer. Thats just wrong

[EdwinThuku1]

Why are they too strict on spelling.... i wrote zayyid and was marked wrong

[hajeroualh]

Maybe it is too early at this level but stressing a consonant in arabic is done with a specific symbol.
Like here zeyd would be زَيْد
But zayyid like you said would be زَيِّد

[awelottta]

Is that called the shadda diacritic

[AzizNekkou]

Sjsjs

[kaet]

Transliterations abound. Report it and they might well add that one, but you can't expect the course creators to have thought of every transliteration for every Arabic name they use.