Word
اليوم برد كتير، فبدي شاي.
Meaning
Today it is very cold, so I want tea.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Lesson
Questions & Answers about اليوم برد كتير، فبدي شاي.
How is this sentence pronounced?
One common Levantine pronunciation is:
il-yoom berd kteer, fa-biddi shay
A rough word-by-word guide:
- اليوم = il-yoom
- برد = berd
- كتير = kteer
- فبدي = fa-biddi
- شاي = shay
A few sounds vary by region, so you may also hear things like bard instead of berd, or baddi instead of biddi.
Why is there no word for is in اليوم برد كتير?
Because in Arabic, especially in the present tense, the verb to be is usually omitted.
So اليوم برد كتير is literally something like:
today cold a lot
but naturally it means:
Today it’s very cold.
This is completely normal in both spoken Arabic and Standard Arabic in present-time sentences.
What does برد mean here? Is it the same as بارد?