هذا الحكم.

This is the referee.

Breakdown of هذا الحكم.

• هذا: this
• حكم: referee

Questions & Answers about هذا الحكم.

How do you pronounce هذا الحكم?

A careful pronunciation is hādhā al-ḥukmu.

A few notes:

• هذا = hādhā
• dh sounds like the th in this
• ح is a deeper, breathier sound than ordinary English h
• الحكم = al-ḥukm

In normal pause at the end of a sentence, the final short vowel is often not pronounced, so you may hear hādhā al-ḥukm.

Why is there no word for is in this sentence?

Because Arabic usually omits is/are in present-tense nominal sentences.

So هذا الحكم literally looks like this the-ruling, but it means This is the ruling/judgment.

If you wanted to say was, Arabic would normally use a verb such as كان.

Why does الحكم have الـ?

Because the noun after هذا is usually definite in Modern Standard Arabic when you mean this + noun.

So:

• هذا الحكم = this ruling / this is the ruling
• هذا حكمٌ would mean something more like this is a ruling/judgment (indefinite), which is a different idea