علاقتهم منيحة.

good

Breakdown of علاقتهم منيحة.

• علاقة: relationship

Questions & Answers about علاقتهم منيحة.

Why is there no word for is in this sentence?

In Levantine Arabic, the verb to be is usually not expressed in the present tense.

So علاقتهم منيحة literally looks like:

• their relationship
• good

But it means Their relationship is good.

This is completely normal in Arabic.
If you wanted past or future, then Arabic would use other forms, but in the present tense, no separate is/are/am is needed.

What does علاقتهم break down into?

علاقتهم has two parts:

• علاقة = relationship
• -هم = their

So:

• علاقة → relationship
• علاقتهم → their relationship

A key detail: when a noun ending in ة takes a suffix, that ة is pronounced as -t.

So علاقة becomes something like:

• علاقتهم
• pronounced roughly ʿalāʔet-hon / ʿalāʔt-hon

That t sound is normal and expected.

Why does علاقة turn into علاقتهم with a t sound?