هاد البلد كبير.

This country is big.

Breakdown of هاد البلد كبير.

• هاد: this
• كبير: big
• بلد: country

Questions & Answers about هاد البلد كبير.

How do you pronounce هاد البلد كبير?

A common Levantine pronunciation is hād il-balad kbīr.

A rough English-style transliteration is haad el-balad kbiir.

A few notes:

• هاد = hād
• البلد is often pronounced il-balad or el-balad in Levantine, not al-balad
• كبير is usually kbīr / kbiir, with the short vowel before k often dropped in speech

So the whole sentence sounds roughly like: haad el-balad kbiir.

What does هاد mean exactly?

هاد means this.

In this sentence, it points to a masculine singular noun:

• هاد البلد = this country / this town / this place

In many Levantine varieties:

• masculine singular: هاد
• feminine singular: هاي
• plural: هدول

So you can think of هاد as the Levantine colloquial equivalent of MSA هذا.

Why is there no word for is in the sentence?

Because in Arabic, present-tense sentences like this usually do not use a word for is.

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