"أُخْتي مَشْغولة دائِماً."

Translation: My sister is always busy.

[Dounette6133]

the audio says "oukhtay" which is confusing and might make people think it s saying my 2 sisters instead of my sister

[Bonjour689181]

My sister is busy always, was not accepted. I want to know the grammatical reason for this being incorrect.

[Dave168907]

Placing the adverb "always" after the adjective is unnatural for a native speaker of English. That order would immediately identify the speaker as foreign.

[KatieCos]

Yes and no. It's not actually wrong, and could be said by a native speaker, if the "always" is an afterthought. Or it could place great emphasis or even anger on the "always". It is a marked construction, ie not the normal.

[a6Ndg]

Thats what i thought but remembered they said it was incorrect and the "correct" answer was that one in a similar exrrcise in a lower level

[KatieCos]

Could you be more specific, a6Ndg?

[HaroldGarr6]

can someone give some insight about the دٔ ? sometimes it seems like these letters are pronounced (after a ء sort of pause) but other times it seems like it isn't pronounced at all whatever letter under it is arbitrary

[tsuj1g1r1]

In Arabic, ء often needs a "seat": a letter that isn't really pronounced but which is written for the express purpose of carrying the hamza. The rules can be a bit complex, but the upshot of it is that the vowels surrounding the hamza determine what letter it is on, but the I sound takes precedence over the U sound which takes precedence over the A sound. So since "daa2iman" has an I sound after the hamza, the I sound beats the A sound before the hamza, and the hamza ends up sitting on a yaa2. If the word was pronounced daa2uman, it would have been داؤما, and if it were dii2aman, that would have been ديئما, etc.

[Away54]

Hi HaroldGarr6! Pardon me, I don't quite understand your question. ئ or ء is called "hamza". Its sound is similar to 2alif أ. Have I answered the question?

[ella660733]

The hint for "daaiman" is missing. There's just an empty bubble.

[AhmedRafiu]

I got another sentence where structure of sentence is similar (see below) but "daaiman" came in middle.. confusing

زوجى داىمً تعبان

[tsuj1g1r1]

Both positions work with a slight nuance in meaning. زوجي دائما تعبان sounds like a complaint, زوجي تعبان دائما sounds more like a statement of fact.

[CiWu314399]

Could you please correct the pronounciation of اختي? It is irritating and people might learn it falsely