"روزا بِنْت أَمْريكِيّة سورِيّة."
Translation:Rosa is a Syrian American girl.
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This is a tricky question. Either order sounds fine in English, but the sentence would have to be "Rosa is an American girl." In English, we use "an" instead of "a" when the next word begins with a vowel.
I think it is something like this: waladun Arabiyya --> Arab boy. Also, waladun dhakiyyun --> smart boy. Then for consistency: Amrikiyyatun suriyyah --> Syrian American.
I think that depends on where she has settled. If Rosa is an American of Syrian origin, she would be referred to as a Syrian American (as in 'African American'. On the other hand, if she is a Syrian with American routes she would be called an 'American Syrian' in English. The exercise doesn't say which is true in this case.
Not just this exercise but all the others like this make it virtually impossible to read the Arabic. There's so much space on the page to make the font bigger. Can't understand why it's so small.
My understanding, based on first-year Arabic in university, is that بنت is often used for adult females as well as children.
Its not used for adult females its only used for little girls or it could also mean daughter and if it is used as daughter then you can use it for an adult female. Same logic applies to boys
