Word
عقد الإيجار ينتهي غدا.
Meaning
The rental agreement expires tomorrow.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Breakdown of عقد الإيجار ينتهي غدا.
غدا
tomorrow
عقد إيجارaqdu ijârin
rental agreement
ينتهيyantahi
to expire; end
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Questions & Answers about عقد الإيجار ينتهي غدا.
How do you pronounce عقد الإيجار ينتهي غدا?
A helpful pronunciation is:
ʿaqd al-ʾījār yantahī ghadan
A few notes:
- ع in عقد is the letter ʿayn, a sound English does not have.
- خ/غ? Here you have غ in غدا, pronounced like a deep, voiced French-style r for many learners.
- ينتهي is pronounced yan-ta-hī.
If you include full case endings in careful MSA, it would be closer to:
ʿaqdu l-ʾījāri yantahī ghadan
What does عقد الإيجار literally mean?
Literally:
- عقد = contract
- الإيجار = the renting / the lease
So عقد الإيجار literally means the contract of the lease/rental, which in natural English is the lease contract, the rental contract, or the lease agreement.
Why does عقد not have الـ even though the phrase means the lease contract?
Because عقد الإيجار is an iḍāfa construction, often called a construct phrase.
In an iḍāfa: