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- "صَديقَتي جودي ذَكِيّة."
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It is because they're using a text-to-speech engine instead of having someone with proper arabic pronunciation read the sentences
- 336
My audio pronounces an A before the final ii. Surely you don't need an additional vowel (as we saw with the damma recently) before another VOWEL (ي))?!
- 336
In fact, if you put a short vowel before the ي, that turns the ي into a semivowel, doesn't it? What's the point of that? I mean, is there some rule here that I'm not aware of? Please?
What's the rule for connecting the word to the possessive suffix? I don't remember the "t" as a buffer in previous exercises
The previous response is accurate, but I don't believe it is answering your question. When a word is feminine, it has the "taa marbuuta" (ة). This will remain in this form until it becomes a possessive. Once you add a possessive suffix to the end of a word with a taa marbuuta (ة) it will turn into a regular "taa" (ت) and the suffix will come after. Hope this helps!
- 336
It doesn't turn into a taa alone, does it? It has to have a fatHa first, then the taa, since it's an untied taa marbuta.
