درجة الحرارة واطية.

The temperature is low.

Breakdown of درجة الحرارة واطية.

• واطي: low
• درجة حرارة: the temperature

Questions & Answers about درجة الحرارة واطية.

How do I pronounce درجة الحرارة واطية?

A common Levantine pronunciation is:

darajet il-ḥarāra wāṭye

You may also hear something closer to:

darjet il-ḥarāra wāṭye

A few quick notes:

• ḥ = a strong h sound from the throat
• ṭ = an emphatic t
• wāṭye sounds roughly like WAT-yeh, but shorter and tighter

Also, in fast everyday speech, vowels often get reduced, so darajet can sound like darjet.

Is the و at the beginning of واطية the word and?

No. Here, the و is just part of the word واطية.

So:

• و by itself can mean and
• but in واطية, it is not a separate word

The adjective is واطي / واطية, meaning low.

Why is there no word for is in the sentence?

Because in Arabic, especially in the present tense, to be is usually not said.

So:

• درجة الحرارة واطية = The temperature is low
• literally: temperature low

This is completely normal in Levantine and in Arabic generally for present-time statements.