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Questions & Answers about رسوم الشحن غالية.
How do I pronounce رسوم الشحن غالية in Egyptian Arabic?
A natural pronunciation is:
rusūm ish-shaḥn ghālya
A few notes:
- الشحن is pronounced ish-shaḥn or esh-shaḥn, not el-shaḥn, because ش is a sun letter, so the l in ال blends into the sh sound.
- غالية is usually heard as ghālya in speech.
- رسوم has a long ū sound: ru-sūm.
What does each word do in this sentence?
Here is the breakdown:
- رسوم = fees / charges
- الشحن = the shipping
- غالية = expensive
So رسوم الشحن is a noun phrase meaning shipping fees/charges, and غالية is the predicate adjective describing them.
Why is there no word for are in the sentence?
Because in Arabic, present-tense sentences like this usually do not use a word for is / are.
So Arabic says, literally:
shipping fees expensive
This is completely normal.
If you wanted past or future, then Arabic would use extra words, but in the present tense it usually leaves the copula out.