النمو جيد.

A simple learner-friendly pronunciation is an-numū jayyid.

A few helpful notes:

• ال before ن is pronounced an-, not al-
• The n sound is doubled: an-numū
• جيد is pronounced jayyid; in normal Arabic writing, the shadda and short vowels are often not shown

In very careful formal reading, extra case endings may be pronounced too, but learners often first hear it simply as an-numū jayyid.

Because ن is one of the sun letters.

When ال comes before a sun letter, the l sound of al- assimilates to the next consonant. So:

• written: النمو
• pronounced: an-numū

This happens in pronunciation, not spelling. Arabic still writes ال the same way.

In Arabic, the present-tense verb to be is usually omitted in simple statements like this.

So:

• النمو جيد
• literally: the growth good
• natural English: The growth is good or Growth is good

This kind of sentence is called a nominal sentence in Arabic.

If you wanted past or future, Arabic usually uses a verb such as كان or سيكون.

It is a full sentence.

Here:

• النمو = the subject
• جيد = the predicate, meaning good

So the structure is:

• النمو جيد = The growth is good

This is different from:

• النمو الجيد = the good growth

That second example is just a noun phrase, not a complete sentence.

Because Arabic often uses ال with nouns in places where English does not use the.

So النمو can refer to:

• the growth in a specific context, or
• growth as a general concept

In other words, Arabic ال does not always translate word-for-word as English the. Very often, it is just the normal way Arabic expresses a general or known noun in context.

Because جيد here is the predicate of the sentence, not an attributive adjective directly attached to the noun.

In a sentence like this, the predicate is usually indefinite:

• النمو جيد = The growth is good

But if you make جيد definite too, you get:

• النمو الجيد = the good growth

So the presence or absence of ال helps show whether you have:

• a sentence: النمو جيد
• or a noun phrase: النمو الجيد

Because it agrees with النمو, which is grammatically singular masculine.

So Arabic uses:

• جيد for masculine singular

If the subject were feminine, you would normally use:

• جيدة

For example:

• النتيجة جيدة = The result is good

So even though جيد is the predicate, it still agrees with the subject in gender and number.

In fully inflected MSA, both parts of this sentence are nominative:

• the subject is nominative
• the predicate is also nominative

So in careful reading, جيد would take a nominative ending, written جيدٌ.

For النمو, the word also has a nominative ending in formal grammar, though in normal unvowelled writing these endings are usually not shown.

In everyday reading and in pause at the end of the sentence, many speakers do not pronounce these endings clearly, which is why learners often first meet the sentence simply as:

• النمو جيد