Word
الاجتماع يوم التلات.
Meaning
The meeting is on Tuesday.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about الاجتماع يوم التلات.
How do you pronounce الاجتماع يوم التلات?
A common Egyptian Arabic pronunciation is:
el-egtimāʿ yōm et-talāt
Breakdown:
- الاجتماع → el-egtimāʿ
- يوم → yōm
- التلات → et-talāt
The final sound in اجتماع is ع, often written as ʿ in transliteration. It does not have a direct English equivalent.
Why is there no word for is in the sentence?
Because Arabic often leaves out the verb to be in the present tense.
So a sentence like:
الاجتماع يوم التلات
literally looks like:
the meeting Tuesday
but it naturally means:
The meeting is on Tuesday.
This is very normal in both Egyptian Arabic and Standard Arabic.
What does يوم mean here?