اخدت علامة منيحة بهالمادة.

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Breakdown of اخدت علامة منيحة بهالمادة.

• ب: in
• هال: this
• مادة: course

Questions & Answers about اخدت علامة منيحة بهالمادة.

How would a Levantine speaker usually pronounce this sentence?

A rough pronunciation is akhadet ʿalāme منيحة b-hal-mādde.

A few notes:

• اخدت is often pronounced something like akhadet.
• علامة sounds like ʿalāme.
• منيحة sounds like mniiha.
• بهالمادة sounds like b-hal-mādde.

Pronunciation varies a bit across Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine, but this is a good approximation.

Is this Modern Standard Arabic or Levantine Arabic?

This is Levantine Arabic, not Modern Standard Arabic.

Clues:

• منيحة is colloquial Levantine for good.
• هالـ in هالمادة is a Levantine way to say this.
• اخدت is a dialect form; in Standard Arabic you would expect something based on أخذت.

A more Standard-Arabic-style sentence would be something like أخذتُ علامةً جيدةً في هذه المادة or more naturally حصلتُ على علامةٍ جيدةٍ في هذه المادة.

What does اخدت mean here exactly?

Literally, اخدت comes from the verb أخد, which means to take.

But in this sentence, it means got or received: