"هُوَّ كَلْبَك وَهُوَّ سَعيد يا عُمَر."

Translation: He is your dog and he is happy, Omar.

[Anon.User20]

Why are the sentences in this course that weird?
Where I would say a sentence like that to anyone?
Either the sentences are automatically generated from a bunch of words available in the database, or the person designing the course decided to have some fun and put some random words together for the confusion of the learners :P

[Vykis92]

Is this Egyptian arabic?

[arabmouni]

The entire course seems to be mixture of MSA, Egyptian, and Levantine from what I can tell.

[O-A98]

(It) not he

[hasan584968]

It

[Away54]

هُوَ كَلْبُكَ وَهُوَ سَعِيْدٌ

[hasan584968]

It

[Arbelius]

I'm confused with this "Kalbak" and "Kalbik" Fathah and kasrah placement. I thought if the dog is subject, then it would be "Kalbak" and if it after subject, then it would be "Kalbik". But I'm wrong?

[Away54]

Arbelius,

In some Dialects, (1) "kalbak" means "your dog" (which "your" here refers to a male interlocutor, such as "Omar") while (2) "kalbik" means "your dog" (which "your" refers to a female interlocutor, for example, "Judy") -- (both are) in any cases, ie. whether they are the subject of the sentence or else.

(In Standard, the theory is different -- I have written the diacritic marks for the sentence above according to Standard in my other comment).

[MushtaqAli6]

here he for dog should be replaced with 'it' because howa in arabic can mean both he / it

[arabmouni]

Yes, but we wouldn't say "it's your dog" in English if we know the gender of said dog. We always say he/she for dogs, cats and other pets if we know their gender, so why wouldn't we translate it that way?

[deactivated user]

The name Omar may be placed between the two phrases; "He/It is your dog, Omar, and he/it is happy.

[yasser561824]

Houwa kalbouka wa houwa sa3id ya omar...