هذا عقد إيجار.

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Breakdown of هذا عقد إيجار.

• عقد إيجار: rental agreement

Questions & Answers about هذا عقد إيجار.

How do I pronounce هذا عقد إيجار?

A careful MSA pronunciation is hādhā ʿaqdu ʾījārin.

In normal pause, many speakers/readers will say something closer to hādhā ʿaqd ijār and not fully pronounce the case endings.

A few sound notes:

• هذا = hādhā
• ع in عقد is the letter ʿayn, a throat sound with no exact English equivalent
• إ in إيجار begins with a hamza, a small glottal stop: ʾījār
• dh in hādhā sounds like the th in this, not like the th in thin

Why is there no word for is in the sentence?

Because Arabic often leaves out the present-tense verb to be in simple statements.

So هذا عقد إيجار literally looks like this lease-contract, but it naturally means This is a lease contract.

This kind of sentence is called a nominal sentence in Arabic. In the present tense:

• هذا بيت = This is a house
• هو مدرس = He is a teacher

If you wanted was, will be, and so on, Arabic would usually use an actual verb such as كان.

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