الزهرة صفرا.

The flower is yellow.

Breakdown of الزهرة صفرا.

• زهرة: flower
• اصفر: yellow

Questions & Answers about الزهرة صفرا.

How do you pronounce الزهرة صفرا in Levantine?

A natural pronunciation is roughly iz-zahra ṣafra or ez-zahra ṣafra, depending on the local accent.

A few helpful points:

• ال often sounds like il-/el- in Levantine.
• In الزهرة, the ل of ال assimilates to ز, so you hear a doubled z sound: iz-zahra, not al-zahra.
• ص in صفرا is an emphatic s, deeper than a regular s.
• The final ة in الزهرة is pronounced -a here.

Why is there no word for is in this sentence?

Because in Arabic, including Levantine, the present tense often uses no spoken verb for to be.

So:

• الزهرة صفرا literally looks like the flower yellow
• but it means The flower is yellow

This is completely normal. Arabic often makes present-tense sentences with just:

• a subject: الزهرة
• and a predicate: صفرا

Why is the adjective صفرا feminine?

Because زهرة is a feminine noun, and adjectives normally agree with the noun in gender and number.

So:

• masculine: أصفر = yellow
• feminine in Levantine: صفرا

Since الزهرة is feminine, the sentence uses صفرا, not the masculine form.