الحديقة خضرا.

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Breakdown of الحديقة خضرا.

• اخضر: green

Questions & Answers about الحديقة خضرا.

How do I pronounce الحديقة خضرا in Egyptian Arabic?

A natural Egyptian pronunciation is el-ḥadīʔa khaḍra.

A few helpful sound notes:

• الـ is usually pronounced el- or il-, not al-.
• ح is a stronger, breathier h sound.
• ق in Egyptian Arabic is often a glottal stop ʔ, so حديقة sounds like ḥadīʔa.
• خ is the throaty kh sound, like in Scottish loch or German Bach.

So the whole sentence sounds roughly like: el-ha-DEE-a KHAD-ra.

Why is there no word for is in this sentence?

Because Arabic usually leaves out the present-tense verb to be.

So:

• الحديقة خضرا = The garden is green

There is no separate word for is in simple present-tense sentences like this.

But in other tenses, Arabic does use a verb:

• الحديقة كانت خضرا = The garden was green
• الحديقة هتكون خضرا = The garden will be green

This is very normal in both Egyptian Arabic and Standard Arabic.

Why is green written as خضرا instead of أخضر?