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"Juba and Dakar"
Translation:جوبا وَداكار
July 12, 2019
7 Comments
benton.1
614
You can only know from how it is pronounced in Arabic and not from how it is written using the Roman alphabet, or if you've memorized the spelling of the word in Arabic.
Away54
329
Abdlkadr14,
The وَ is always pronounced as "wa" while the و can be وَ - وِ - وُ - وْ - وّ or other possibilities. In the "Juba" word above, it is وْ (to form a long "uu" vowel) if we put the diacritic but Duolingo doesn't write it down. (Writing the diacritics is optional).