يطيل الخياط الحاشية.

A careful fully-voweled pronunciation is:

yuṭīlu al-khayyāṭu al-ḥāshiyata

A rough sound guide:

• yu = like you without the final w
• ṭ = an emphatic t
• kh = the throaty sound in Scottish loch or German Bach
• ḥ = a strong breathy h from deeper in the throat
• sh = sh in ship

So the three words are:

• يطيل = yuṭīlu
• الخياط = al-khayyāṭu
• الحاشية = al-ḥāshiyata

Because this is a very common Arabic sentence pattern: verb + subject + object.

So here:

• يطيل = the verb
• الخياط = the subject
• الحاشية = the object

This is called VSO word order (Verb–Subject–Object), and it is very common in Modern Standard Arabic.

English usually prefers Subject–Verb–Object:

• The tailor lengthens the hem.

Arabic often prefers:

• Lengthens the tailor the hem.
  That sounds strange in English, but it is normal in Arabic.

يطيل is a present-tense verb, third person, masculine, singular.

It means something like:

• he lengthens
• he is lengthening
• he makes longer

Why masculine singular?

Because the subject is الخياط (the tailor), which is grammatically masculine singular here.

The يـ at the beginning is the normal marker for he in the present tense.

It comes from the root ط و ل which is connected with length or being long.

Related words include:

• طويل = long
• طول = length
• أطال / يطيل = to make longer, to lengthen

So يطيل is not just is long. It is a causative-type meaning:
to make something long / longer.

The case endings show this.

In full grammatical pronunciation:

• الخياطُ ends in -u → this marks the subject
• الحاشيةَ ends in -a → this marks the direct object

So even if you were unsure from meaning alone, the endings tell you the roles:

• الخياطُ = the tailor does the action
• الحاشيةَ = the hem receives the action

These are case endings in Standard Arabic.

In this sentence:

• الخياطُ is nominative because it is the subject
• الحاشيةَ is accusative because it is the direct object

The verb يطيلُ also has its own normal indicative ending -u.

So the fully inflected sentence is:

يطيلُ الخياطُ الحاشيةَ

In ordinary Arabic printing, these short vowel marks are often omitted, but they are still understood.

Because both nouns are definite:

• الخياط = the tailor
• الحاشية = the hem / edge / margin

The article الـ is the Arabic definite article, equivalent to English the.

If the nouns were indefinite, the sentence would look different.

Yes. That is also correct.

• يطيل الخياط الحاشية = a normal verbal sentence with verb first
• الخياط يطيل الحاشية = a subject-first version

Both can mean essentially the same thing: The tailor lengthens the hem.

Very roughly:

• verb first often feels more neutral or narrative
• subject first can feel a bit more like you are focusing on the tailor

In many contexts, both are perfectly fine.

الخياط means the tailor and comes from the root خ ي ط, related to sewing and thread.

It is on a pattern often used for professions or someone who does an action regularly. Compare the idea of English endings like -er in tailor, writer, worker.

So الخياط is basically the one who sews / the tailor.

Also note the doubled sound in pronunciation:

• khayyāṭ

That doubled y sound comes from the shadda.

Yes, الحاشية is grammatically feminine.

You can often tell because it ends with ـة in its dictionary form: حاشية.

But that does not make the verb feminine here, because the verb agrees with the subject, not the object.

The subject is الخياط (the tailor), which is masculine singular, so the verb is masculine singular:

• يطيل = he lengthens

If the subject were feminine, then the verb form would change.

The base word is:

• حاشية

When it is the direct object, it becomes:

• حاشيةَ

This may look a little unusual to beginners because the word already ends in ـة, and then the accusative vowel fatḥa is added to the final sound.

So in full vocalization:

• الحاشيةَ

That final -a marks it as the object.

Because Arabic does not need an extra helping word here.

English might use:

• The tailor lengthens the hem
• The tailor is lengthening the hem

Arabic simply uses the present-tense verb يطيل and lets context decide the exact English translation.

So one Arabic present-tense form can correspond to several natural English translations depending on context.

Everything here is singular:

• يطيل = he lengthens
• الخياط = the tailor (one tailor)
• الحاشية = the hem/edge (one hem/edge)

If the subject or object were plural, the forms would change.

Usually, no.

In most everyday printed Arabic, you would often see:

يطيل الخياط الحاشية

without the short-vowel marks.

But when learning grammar, dictionaries, textbooks, Qur’anic-style writing, or children’s materials, you may see the fully vocalized form:

يُطِيلُ الْخَيَّاطُ الْحَاشِيَةَ

Those marks help you see pronunciation and grammar clearly.

A beginner can learn several useful things from it:

1. Verb-first order is common in Arabic.

   • يطيل الخياط الحاشية

2. The present-tense prefix يـ often means “he ...”

   • يطيل = he lengthens

3. Case endings matter in Standard Arabic.

   • الخياطُ = subject
   • الحاشيةَ = object

4. The definite article is الـ

   • الخياط = the tailor
   • الحاشية = the hem

5. The verb agrees with the subject, not the object.

   • Subject is masculine singular, so the verb is masculine singular.

That makes this a very useful model sentence for basic Arabic grammar.