حظي كان سيئ مبارح.

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Breakdown of حظي كان سيئ مبارح.

• كان: to be
• سيئ: bad
• حظ: luck

Questions & Answers about حظي كان سيئ مبارح.

How do I pronounce حظي كان سيئ مبارح?

A common Levantine-style pronunciation is:

ḥaẓẓi kān sayyeʔ mbāreḥ

Word by word:

• حظي = ḥaẓẓi
• كان = kān
• سيئ = sayyeʔ or sometimes seyyiʔ
• مبارح = mbāreḥ

A few notes:

• The ح is a strong breathy h sound from the throat.
• The ظ is an emphatic consonant; learners often approximate it at first.
• The last sound in سيئ is a glottal stop: the little break in the middle of uh-oh.

What does حظي mean, and why is my attached to the word?

حظي means my luck.

In Arabic, possession is often shown by adding a suffix directly to the noun. Here:

• حظ = luck
• -ي = my

So:

• حظي = my luck

This is very common in Levantine and Arabic in general. Instead of using a separate word for my, Arabic often attaches it to the noun.

Why is كان used here?

كان is the past form of .