الممارسة مهمة.

Practice is important.

Breakdown of الممارسة مهمة.

• مهم: important
• ممارسة: practice

Questions & Answers about الممارسة مهمة.

How do you pronounce الممارسة مهمة?

In careful MSA with case endings, it is:

al-mumārasatu muhimmatun

In normal pause pronunciation, you will often hear:

al-mumārasah muhimmah

A few helpful notes:

• الممارسة = al-mumārasah
• مهمة = muhimmah
• The ة at the end is usually heard as -ah in pause.
• The مّ in مهمّة is doubled, because there is a shadda on it.

Why is there no word for is in this sentence?

Because Arabic often does not use a present-tense form of to be.

So a sentence like:

الممارسة مهمة

literally looks like:

practice important

but it naturally means:

Practice is important.

This is called a nominal sentence in Arabic. In the present tense, Arabic usually just puts the subject and predicate next to each other.

Is this a complete sentence even though it has only two words?