"اَلْأَزْهَر جامِعة جَيِّدة."

Translation: Al-Azhar is a good university.

[Kristoff-Johan]

Here's a little about the university with the mosque (by the same name) and down the hill from the park (also by the same name) where one can visit the picturesque Citadel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Azhar_University

[LittleBlue419942]

I got it wrong and i typed Al-Azhar University is good and the right answer was "Al-Azhar is a good university." They both make sence.

[Hadriano8]

Al-Azhar University as the name of the university in Arabic is جامعة الأزهر, so the sentence "Al-Azhar University is good" would be جامعة الأزهر جيدة , and not الأزهر جامعة جيدة I think.

[bgold14]

Al-Azhar is a duolingo sponsor

[Kristoff-Johan]

What's going on at the beginning of Al Azhar? It looks like the 'l' has BOTH a "a" mark (diacritic fatḥah ⟨فَتْحَة⟩) and also the little circle for no vowel (diacritic sukūn ⟨سُكُون⟩). Am I seeing things?

[Qwynnyx]

Combining أ and ل gives you the definitive article ال. Now, if you combine ل with ا, for example in سلام it will create this shape لا which is pronounced lâ. To allow for the separation Al and Azhar, there must be the ء sign. الازهر would be read alâzhar but we want Al-Azhar so we need ء and write الأزهر.
The rest is just vowel signs.

[MonsieurLabat]

That would explain why it didn't accept Al Azhar without the dash/hyphen in between...

[Aamri2]

As best as I can see, it's a hamza

[devarain]

I still confuse. Why use feminime? Is a university has a gender?

[benton.1]

Yes, all nouns in Arabic, like French, German, Spanish, et al, have gender.