Word
نسبة الفايدة مهمة للقسط الشهري.
Meaning
The interest rate is important for the monthly payment.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Breakdown of نسبة الفايدة مهمة للقسط الشهري.
مهمmuhimm
important
نسبة الفايدةnisbet el-fâyda
the interest rate
القسط الشهريel'ist el-shahri
the monthly payment
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Questions & Answers about نسبة الفايدة مهمة للقسط الشهري.
How would I pronounce نسبة الفايدة مهمة للقسط الشهري in Egyptian Arabic?
A natural Egyptian pronunciation would be:
nisbet el-fāyda muhimma lil-'est esh-shahri
A slower word-by-word breakdown:
- نسبة → nisbet
- الفايدة → el-fāyda
- مهمة → muhimma
- للقسط → lil-'est
- الشهري → esh-shahri
A few pronunciation notes:
- The ق in القسط is often pronounced as a glottal stop in Egyptian Arabic, so القسط sounds like 'est.
- الـ often sounds like el- in Egyptian Arabic.
- In الشهري, the l of el- assimilates to sh, so it becomes esh-shahri, not el-shahri.
What does نسبة mean here?
Here, نسبة means rate or percentage.
So in financial language:
- نسبة الفايدة = the interest rate
This is a very common structure in Arabic:
- نسبة
- noun
meaning the rate/percentage of ...
- noun
Examples:
- نسبة البطالة = unemployment rate
- نسبة النجاح = success rate
- نسبة الفايدة = interest rate
Why is it الفايدة and not الفائدة?