Word
تملك جارتي دكانا صغيرا.
Meaning
My neighbor owns a small shop.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of تملك جارتي دكانا صغيرا.
صغيرsagheer
small
جارjâr
neighbor
يi
my / me (after a preposition)
دكانdukkân
shop
Questions & Answers about تملك جارتي دكانا صغيرا.
Why does the sentence use تملك instead of يملك?
The verb تملك starts with the prefix تـ because the subject doing the action is feminine: جارتي (my female neighbor). If it were a male neighbor (جاري), the verb would be يملك starting with a يـ.
What happened to the taa marbuta in the word for female neighbor?
The base word for a female neighbor is جارة, which ends in a taa marbuta (ة). However, when you add a possessive suffix like ـي (my), the closed ة must 'open up' into a regular ت so the suffix can physically connect to it, resulting in جارتي.
Why is there an extra ا (alif) at the end of دكانا?
This extra ا shows that the word is the direct object of the verb. In written Arabic, when a noun is indefinite (meaning it doesn't have 'the') and is the object of the sentence, it takes a double fatha ending called tanwin fatha (pronounced '-an'). This spelling rule requires adding an ا to hold that sound, making it دكانا.
Why does the adjective صغيرا also get the extra ا at the end?