الحديقة جميلة.

The garden is beautiful.

Breakdown of الحديقة جميلة.

• حديقة: garden
• جميل: beautiful

Questions & Answers about الحديقة جميلة.

How would a Levantine speaker usually pronounce الحديقة جميلة?

A common Levantine-style pronunciation is il-ḥadīʔa jmīle.

A few useful notes:

• الـ is usually pronounced il- or el- in Levantine, not formal al-.
• In many urban Levantine accents, ق is pronounced as a glottal stop ʔ, so حديقة sounds like ḥadīʔa.
• جميلة is often pronounced jmīle in everyday speech, though a fuller jamīle may also be heard.

So the written sentence is standard-looking, but the spoken Levantine pronunciation is a bit different.

Why is there no word for is in this sentence?

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

So:

• الحديقة جميلة = The garden is beautiful

There is no separate word for is in this kind of present-tense sentence.

If you want past or future, then a verb appears:

• الحديقة كانت جميلة = The garden was beautiful
• الحديقة رح تكون جميلة = The garden will be beautiful

Why is جميلة feminine and not جميل?

Because حديقة is a feminine noun, and adjectives in Arabic agree with the noun they describe.