Can someone explain the alphabet for مرحبا?
I broke it down to م ر ح ب ا and received mrhba. I am confused.
But I know it's pronounced MERhaban as I've learnt by (nonstandard?) romanization. Thanks! SHUkian
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Hello in arabic there is only consonants. The vowels are replaced by the "harakat". Fat7a damma kassra soukoun. Which we put above each letter to give it a sound
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You are right, in standard Arabic it's pronounced Marhaban because we have harakat and this word have this haraka at the last letter اً ، we name this haraka o the letter Tanween and it's pronounced as " an" .
I hope this explanation is clear.
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i see you new more about harakat down there i hope you understood them well if you need more i can help
it's (shuk-ran) if you insist on breaking it
but in arabic you shouldn't break words into syllables just follow letters and harkat and this will be easier by practice
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Yes, I've got that one. What about the missing vowels between "mrhb"?
Oh, is 'shukran' 3 syllables? shu-kri-an? I've been saying shu-key-an? I saw 'shukran' before but I read it as shu-kran.
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in standard arabic when the work ends with (ا) we add this mark (اً) we call it tanween and it's equal in pronouncing to (ن) N letter added to the end of the word so marhaba becomes marhaban in standard arabic
and by the way thanks is pronounced (shukran) not (shukian)
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