مساحة التخزين صغيرة.

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Breakdown of مساحة التخزين صغيرة.

• مساحة التخزين: the storage space

Questions & Answers about مساحة التخزين صغيرة.

How would I pronounce مساحة التخزين صغيرة in Egyptian Arabic?

A good Egyptian-style pronunciation is:

mesāḥet et-takhzīn soġayyara

A few useful notes:

• مساحة by itself is roughly mesāḥa.
• In مساحة التخزين, the ة is heard as -et because it is followed by another noun in an iḍāfa construction, so مساحة becomes mesāḥet.
• In التخزين, the ال is pronounced et-, not el-, because ت is a sun letter, so the l sound assimilates.
• صغيرة in Egyptian is often closer to soġayyara than the more formal ṣaghīra.

Why is there no word for is in this sentence?

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

So:

• مساحة التخزين صغيرة = The storage space is small

Literally, it is more like:

• storage space small

This is completely normal in Arabic. If you wanted was or will be, then Arabic would use a verb.

Why doesn’t مساحة have الـ if the meaning is the storage space?