هذا الشراب بارد.

this

Breakdown of هذا الشراب بارد.

• بارد: cold
• شراب: drink; beverage

Questions & Answers about هذا الشراب بارد.

How do you pronounce هذا الشراب بارد?

A careful pronunciation is:

hādhā ash-sharābu bārid(un)

In normal pause, the final case ending is often not pronounced, so you will commonly hear:

hādhā ash-sharāb bārid

A few notes:

• هذا = hādhā
• الشراب is written with al-, but because ش is a sun letter, it is pronounced ash-sharāb
• بارد = bārid

So the whole sentence sounds roughly like:

hā-dhā ash-sha-rāb bā-rid

Why is there no word for is in the sentence?

In Arabic, present-tense equational sentences often do not use a separate word for is / am / are.

So:

• هذا الشراب بارد literally looks like this the-drink cold
• but it means This drink is cold

This is very normal in Arabic. The idea of is is understood automatically.

If you wanted other tenses, Arabic would use other words:

• هذا الشراب كان باردًا = This drink was cold
• هذا الشراب سيكون باردًا = This drink will be cold

But in the simple present, no spoken is is needed.

What does هذا mean, and why is it used here?