المراقبة ضرورية.

necessary

Breakdown of المراقبة ضرورية.

• مراقبة: the supervision; monitoring

Questions & Answers about المراقبة ضرورية.

How would a Levantine speaker pronounce المراقبة ضرورية?

A common Levantine-style pronunciation is:

il-murāʔabe ḍarūriyye

You may also hear something closer to il-mrāʔabe ḍarūriyye in faster speech.

A few useful pronunciation notes:

• الـ is usually pronounced il- or el-
• ق is often a glottal stop ʔ in many Levantine accents
• Final ة is usually pronounced -e in Levantine, not -t

So:

• مراقبة → murāʔabe / mrāʔabe
• ضرورية → ḍarūriyye

Why is there no word for is in this sentence?

Because Arabic often uses a nominal sentence in the present tense.

So المراقبة ضرورية literally looks like:

• monitoring / surveillance
  • necessary

But it naturally means:

• Monitoring is necessary
• Surveillance is necessary

In present-tense Arabic, the verb to be is usually not said. This is very normal in both Standard Arabic and Levantine.

If you wanted the past or future, then a verb would appear, for example with كان or رح يكون depending on the variety.

Why is ضرورية feminine?