الحيوان الشارد برا.

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Breakdown of الحيوان الشارد برا.

• حيوان شارد: the stray animal

Questions & Answers about الحيوان الشارد برا.

How do I pronounce الحيوان الشارد برا in Levantine Arabic?

A natural Levantine pronunciation is:

il-ḥayawān ish-shāred barra

A few notes:

• ḥ in ḥayawān is a deeper, throatier h than English h
• sh sounds like sh in shoe
• barra usually has a doubled r sound
• Levantine Arabic does not use the full case endings you may know from Modern Standard Arabic

So you would not pronounce it like fully inflected formal Arabic.

Why is الـ pronounced differently in الحيوان and الشارد?

Because ش is a sun letter.

In Arabic, the definite article الـ changes pronunciation before certain consonants. In Levantine:

• الحيوان → il-ḥayawān
  Here, ح is not a sun letter, so the l sound stays.
• الشارد → ish-shāred
  Here, ش is a sun letter, so the l sound assimilates to the next consonant.

That is why you hear ish-shāred, not il-shāred.

Why does the adjective الشارد come after الحيوان?