Word
شرفتنا واسعة ونظيفة.
Meaning
Our balcony is spacious and clean.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of شرفتنا واسعة ونظيفة.
وwa
and
نظيفnazhîf
clean
واسعwâsi'
spacious / wide
ناnâ
our / us (object) / we (subject suffix on past verb)
Questions & Answers about شرفتنا واسعة ونظيفة.
Where is the word for "our" in شرفتنا?
In Arabic, possessive pronouns like "our" are suffixes attached directly to the end of a noun. Here, the suffix ـنا means "our".
The dictionary spells "balcony" as شرفة with a ة at the end. Why does it have a regular ت here?
When you attach a suffix like ـنا to a noun that ends in a taa marbuutah (ة), that letter "opens up" and changes into a regular taa (ت). That is why شرفة plus ـنا becomes شرفتنا.
There is no word for "is" in this sentence. Is that a mistake?
No, that is completely normal! In Arabic, simple sentences in the present tense do not use a word for "is" or "are". You just say the subject (شرفتنا) followed directly by the description (واسعة ونظيفة).
Why do the words for "spacious" (واسعة) and "clean" (نظيفة) both end with ة?
Adjectives must match the gender of the noun they describe. Because the base word for balcony (شرفة) is feminine, the adjectives describing it must also take the feminine ending, which is the taa marbuutah (ة).