الانطباع الأول جيد.

good

Breakdown of الانطباع الأول جيد.

• انطباع أول: first impression

Questions & Answers about الانطباع الأول جيد.

How do I pronounce الانطباع الأول جيد?

A careful MSA pronunciation is:

al-inṭibāʿ al-awwal jayyid

A few notes:

• الانطباع = al-inṭibāʿ
• الأول = al-awwal
• جيد = jayyid

In fully vocalized Arabic, it would usually be written:

الانطباعُ الأوَّلُ جيِّدٌ

In normal unvocalized writing, those short vowels are simply left out.

Where is the word for is?

There is no separate word for is in this kind of present-tense Arabic sentence.

Arabic often uses a nominal sentence:

• الانطباع الأول = the subject
• جيد = the predicate

So الانطباع الأول جيد literally looks like:

the first impression — good

But in natural English, that means:

The first impression is good.

If you wanted was, Arabic would usually use كان. For example:

كان الانطباع الأول جيدًا = The first impression was good.

Why does الأول come after الانطباع instead of before it?

Because in Arabic, adjectives normally come after the noun they describe.

So:

• الانطباع الأول = the first impression
• literally: the impression the first

This is different from English, where adjectives usually come before the noun.