التدفئة منيحة بالفندق.

good

Breakdown of التدفئة منيحة بالفندق.

• فندق: hotel
• تدفئة: the heating

Questions & Answers about التدفئة منيحة بالفندق.

How do you pronounce التدفئة منيحة بالفندق in Levantine?

A common Levantine pronunciation is:

it-tadfiye mniiha bil-funduʔ

A few notes:

• التدفئة is often said like it-tadfiye or it-tadfiyye
• منيحة is pronounced mniiha
• بالفندق is usually bil-funduʔ in many Levantine accents, because final ق often becomes a glottal stop ʔ
• Some speakers keep the q sound and say bil-funduq

Why is there no word for is in the sentence?

Because in Arabic, present-tense sentences like this usually do not use a word for is.

So Arabic can simply say:

• التدفئة منيحة = The heating is good

This is called a nominal sentence.
If you wanted the past, then Arabic would use a verb:

• كانت التدفئة منيحة = The heating was good

Why is it منيحة and not منيح?

Because التدفئة is a feminine singular noun, and the adjective has to agree with it.

• masculine: منيح
• feminine: منيحة

So: