"اَلْجارة وَالْقِطّة"

Translation: the neighbor and the cat

[RobertEddy]

Sounds like an intriguing book title.

[T-MAN9000]

Written by Dr Seuss

[joelp]

Why does the first noun have a 'u' ending but the second noun does not.

[RobertEddy]

I believe the feminizing ta marbuta on the second noun is silent and the anticipated 'u' ending assimilates into silence.

[tsuj1g1r1]

It's not really silent, it's pronounced as an "h." That's why we write it that way, as a combination of a haa2 and a taa2. It's because it is pronounced like the formal when it's the last sound in the word, and a taa2 when you add a grammatical ending to it.

You are right about the ending being "assimilated into silence," but just to express this more clearly: you don't pronounce the ending on the very last word in an utterance.

[kuyaC]

How is الجارة supposed to be pronounced at the end?

[DavidBell353152]

why is he pronouncing it aljairottu? There's no T? اَلْجارة

[Ibraahiim13]

The last letter is a sort of t letter that is not pronounced as a t if it is at the end of a sentence, becoming an h sound, but is pronounced if you are continuing.

[genoskill]

Neighbouring and Cating.

[Susan569895]

My predictive text on my phone is predicting duo lingo phrases and part phrase.... ...it's learning some strange sentences in English and Arabic :)!