الدولاب جديد.

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Breakdown of الدولاب جديد.

• دولاب: the tire; wheel

Questions & Answers about الدولاب جديد.

How do you pronounce الدولاب جديد in Levantine Arabic?

A common Levantine pronunciation is:

id-dulāb jdīd
or sometimes ed-dulāb jdiid

A few notes:

• الدولاب starts with the written article الـ (al-), but because د is a sun letter, the l sound assimilates.
• So you say id-dulāb / ed-dulāb, not al-dulāb.
• جديد is usually pronounced jdīd in Levantine.

So the whole sentence sounds roughly like:

id-dulāb jdīd

Why is there no word for is in this sentence?

Because in Arabic, the present tense to be is usually not expressed in simple sentences like this.

So:

• الدولاب جديد = The closet/wardrobe is new

There is no separate word for is in the present tense.

This is very normal in both Levantine Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic.

Why is جديد indefinite? Shouldn’t it be الجديد since الدولاب is definite?