Questions & Answers about الطبيب يقول إن هذا صحيح.
How do I pronounce the whole sentence?
A careful fully-vowelled reading is:
الطبيبُ يقولُ إنَّ هذا صحيحٌ
aṭ-ṭabību yaqūlu inna hādhā ṣaḥīḥun
A few helpful notes:
- ṭ is an emphatic t
- dh in hādhā sounds like th in this
- ṣ is an emphatic s
- In normal speech, final case vowels are often not clearly pronounced, so you may hear something closer to aṭ-ṭabīb yaqūl inna hādhā ṣaḥīḥ
Why is الطبيب written with ال but pronounced aṭ-ṭabīb, not al-ṭabīb?
Because ط is a sun letter.
In Arabic, when الـ comes before a sun letter, the l sound of ال assimilates to the next consonant. So:
- written: الطبيب
- pronounced: aṭ-ṭabīb
The ط is doubled in pronunciation.
This happens in many words, for example:
- الشمس → ash-shams
- الطالب → aṭ-ṭālib
What exactly is يقول?
يقول is the present/imperfect tense form of the verb , which means .