Word
أريد المزيد من الماء.
Meaning
I want more water.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Questions & Answers about أريد المزيد من الماء.
How do you pronounce أريد المزيد من الماء?
A careful MSA pronunciation is:
urīdu al-mazīda mina al-mā’i
A few notes:
- أريد = urīdu
- المزيد = al-mazīda
- من الماء is often pronounced smoothly as mina al-mā’i
- الماء has a glottal stop at the end because of the ء: mā’
If short case endings are not being pronounced in everyday careful speech, you may hear something closer to:
urīd al-mazīd min al-mā’
What does أريد mean grammatically?
أريد is the 1st person singular present/imperfect form of the verb أراد, which means to want.
So أريد literally means:
- I want
It already includes the subject I, so Arabic does not need a separate أنا here.
Why isn’t أنا used in the sentence?
Because the verb أريد already tells you the subject is I.
Arabic verbs usually show the subject clearly, so:
- أريد المزيد من الماء =