"عُمَر مِن سوريا."

Translation: Omar is from Syria.

[macatmil]

I'm wondering why there is no nominative ending to Omar. Mayby it's been explained elsewhere and I missed it?

[benton.1]

Duolingo is using a mix of MSA and dialect in these lessons. Sometimes they include nunation in their sentences, other times they do not.

[massimiliano6274]

Case endings are not used in spoken modern Arabic. Even in the written form they are not indicated, in an informal text.

[alishba417921]

Suriaa ...not syria?

[kara5712800]

Yes in Arabic it is suriaa

[wtf1111]

there is no "is". please tell me why ?

[benton.1]

Arabic does not use the verb "to be" (am, is, are) in the present tense, but, of course, we use it in English.

[Ardiansyah300201]

is it not enough to just interpret "from", not "is from"?

[benton.1]

No. English, unlike Arabic, needs to have a verb in all its sentences.

[asma261960]

Why is it Omar and not Umar