الهجوم قوي بس الدفاع ضعيف.

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Breakdown of الهجوم قوي بس الدفاع ضعيف.

• هجوم: the attack
• دفاع: the defense
• قوي: strong

Questions & Answers about الهجوم قوي بس الدفاع ضعيف.

How would a Levantine speaker usually pronounce الهجوم قوي بس الدفاع ضعيف?

A common Levantine-style pronunciation would be something like:

el-hjūm ʔawi bas ed-dfāʿ ḍaʿīf

A few useful notes:

• الهجوم → el-hjūm
• قوي → often ʔawi in urban Levantine, because ق is often pronounced as a glottal stop
• بس → bas
• الدفاع → ed-dfāʿ
• ضعيف → ḍaʿīf

You may also hear small regional differences, especially in the vowels and in how strongly people pronounce ق.

Why is there no word for is in this sentence?

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

So:

• الهجوم قوي = The attack is strong
• الدفاع ضعيف = The defense is weak

This is completely normal. Arabic often just puts:

noun + adjective

to mean noun is adjective in the present.

If you wanted past or future, then other words would be used.

What does بس mean here?