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Questions & Answers about الآلة تعمل اليوم.
How do you pronounce الآلة تعمل اليوم?
A careful fully vocalized reading is:
الآلةُ تعملُ اليومَ
al-ʾālatu taʿmalu al-yawma
A few notes:
- الآلة = al-ʾālatu
- تعمل = taʿmalu
- اليوم = al-yawma
In everyday paused pronunciation, the final case vowels are often not said, so you may hear something closer to:
al-ʾāla taʿmal al-yawm
What does the آ in الآلة mean?
The letter آ is called alif madda. It usually represents a glottal stop plus a long aa sound.
So آلة begins roughly like:
- ʾaa-
That is why the word is pronounced something like ʾaala.
This spelling can look unusual at first, but it is very common in Arabic.
Why do الآلة and اليوم both start with الـ?