"أَيْن كَري؟"

Translation: Where is Carrie?

[Cypher922476]

What is the sound between the two words?

[benton.1]

The first word is "2aii-na", which means "where". There is not a feminine ending on it. It is just how the word, which is an adverb, is spelled. Duolingo is not putting all the vowel markings in the words. There would be a fattah over the nuun if it were fully voweled: نَ

[AniOhevYayin]

Thanks. That's very helpful. I've deleted most of my comment above based on your help.

[AniOhevYayin]

Here's a couple links here https://www.arabicgenie.com/2013/05/arabic-question-words and also here http://arabic.speak7.com/arabic_phrases101.htm

[danielbrueske]

It sounds like the feminine ending, but I'm not sure whether 2ayn is an adjective.

[AnthPalm]

Is the pronunciation between أَيْن and ءِيْد (have/has, not sure I spelled it right) the same except that have has the d sound at the end of it?

[Eromeon]

I also want to know and if so, why one uses an alif and the other doesn't.

[benton.1]

@AnthPalm. No. The alif in the first word is a glottal stop with the glottal stop marker "hamza" on top, which is transliterated "2": 2aayn. The second word starts with the letter 'ayn which is transliterated "3". This letter makes a sound we don't have in English. You tighten your vocal cords and vibrate them, kind of like gargling, to pronounce whichever vowel it is paired with; "ii" here. The second word is transliterated 3iid.

I hope this helps a bit. There are some good YouTube videos on how to pronounce 'ayn: Arabic Pod 101 youtube.com/watch?v=Tn8STTxsThU.com and Learn Arabic With Maha. The link I saw on Google wasn't correct, so just google "Learn Arabic with Maha, a'yn".

[rbbekkhus]

How would I say "Where are you, Carrie?"

[Anaam744249]

من اين انتِ ياكاري؟
Means where are yoh from Carrie??

[Sue982688]

This is a great question to show how يا is used. The question in this exercise is 'where is Carrie?' I'm asking you about a third person named Carrie. I simply ask, أين كاري. But if you are Carrie, i can ask, 'where are you?' أين عينت or

[Sue982688]

أين أنت؟Where are you

[Sue982688]

Or I can ask'where are you Carrie?' اين انت يا كاريأي؟

[danielbrueske]

Does 2ayn mean 'where' or 'from where'?

[paz_newman]

2ayn means "where".
min means "from".
from where = min 2ayn

[AniOhevYayin]

There is a similarity between أَيْن and Hebrew אן / אין. There's a discussion here: https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/hebrew-etymology-of-%D7%9B%D7%90%D7%9F-here.1574536/

[black1belt]

alif means aa so when ever u see that word it means alif hope that helps.