Word
هيا، نعود إلى البيت.
Meaning
Come on, let's return home.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Questions & Answers about هيا، نعود إلى البيت.
What does هيا mean here, and is it a verb?
هيا is an interjection, not a normal verb. It is used to urge someone into action, like come on!, let’s go!, or all right, then!
In this sentence, it sets the tone: the speaker is encouraging movement or action before saying نعود إلى البيت.
How do you pronounce the whole sentence?
A careful MSA pronunciation is:
hayyā, naʿūdu ilā al-bayti
A few notes:
- هيا = hayyā
- نعود = naʿūdu
- إلى = ilā
- البيت = al-bayti in full grammatical reading
In normal pause, the final case ending is often not pronounced, so you may hear:
hayyā, naʿūdu ilā al-bayt
Why is نعود in the we form?
Because the speaker is including themself in the action.
نعود literally means we return or we go back. In English, this often becomes let’s return or let’s go back, because the speaker is suggesting a shared action.
The نـ at the beginning is a common marker for we in the present tense.