اكتب هذه الكلمة.

A careful MSA pronunciation is uktub hādhihi al-kalimata if you pronounce all the grammatical endings.

In normal pausal pronunciation at the end of a sentence, it is usually closer to uktub hādhihi al-kalimah.

A simple learner-friendly transliteration is:

uktub hādhihi al-kalimah

• اكتب = uktub
• هذه = hādhihi
• الكلمة = al-kalimah

اكتب is an imperative verb meaning write!

More specifically, it is:

• 2nd person
• singular
• masculine

It comes from the verb كتب = to write.

So اكتب literally means write! when speaking to one male.

In Arabic, the imperative verb already includes the idea of you.

So اكتب by itself already means you write! / write! addressed to one male. Arabic does not need a separate subject pronoun here.

That is very normal in Arabic commands.

As written, it is addressed to one male.

If you were speaking to one female, you would say:

اكتبي هذه الكلمة

If you were speaking to more than one person, the form would change again.

So the form of the imperative verb tells you who is being addressed.

Because كلمة is a feminine noun.

In Arabic, this changes for gender:

• هذا = this for masculine nouns
• هذه = this for feminine nouns

Since كلمة is feminine, Arabic uses هذه.

One big clue is the ending ة (called taa marbuuTa).

Very often, nouns ending in ة are feminine, and كلمة is one of them.

So:

• كلمة = feminine noun
• therefore it takes هذه

After هذا / هذه, Arabic normally uses a definite noun.

So the usual pattern is:

• هذه الكلمة = this word
• literally something like this the-word

That may feel strange to an English speaker, but it is standard Arabic structure.

So in MSA, هذه الكلمة is the normal way to say this word.

Because that is the normal Arabic order with demonstratives like هذا and هذه.

Arabic says:

• هذه الكلمة
• literally this the-word

English says:

• this word

So in this case, the word order is actually similar in one way: this still comes before the noun. The main difference is that Arabic also makes the noun definite with الـ.

It is the direct object of the verb اكتب.

In other words:

• اكتب = the action
• هذه الكلمة = the thing you are supposed to write

So the structure is:

verb + object

That is a very common pattern in Arabic.

Yes. In fully vocalized formal Arabic, الكلمة here is in the accusative case because it is the direct object.

So the full form would be:

اكتب هذه الكلمةَ

The final ـَ on الكلمةَ is the accusative ending.

However, in normal everyday writing, short vowels are usually not written, so you usually see:

اكتب هذه الكلمة

Because most Arabic writing leaves out short vowels and other diacritics.

So learners often see the sentence written simply as:

اكتب هذه الكلمة

But a fully vocalized version would be something like:

اُكْتُبْ هَذِهِ الْكَلِمَةَ

Those marks help show:

• pronunciation
• grammatical endings
• exact verb form

Native readers usually do not need them in ordinary text.

This is a normal command sentence in Arabic, and it begins with the verb:

• اكتب = verb
• هذه الكلمة = object

So the order is:

Verb + Object

That is completely natural in Arabic, especially in commands.

Not usually when you stop at the end of the sentence.

The final ة (taa marbuuTa) is often pronounced:

• like -ah when pausing: kalimah
• like -at when the word continues with case endings or in connected grammatical pronunciation: kalimata

So in careful grammar:

• الكلمةَ can sound like al-kalimata

But in normal pause at the end:

• الكلمة sounds like al-kalimah