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The word
جَديدة

jadida

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Arabicجَديدة
Arabizijadida
Translationnew
TypeFeminine adjective
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

جَديدة reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.

01
Letter
ج
jīm
j

A soft 'j' (a hard 'g' in Egyptian Arabic). One dot inside.

Type:[
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
د
dāl
d

A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.

Type:]
04
Letter
ي
yāʾ
y / ī

A 'y' — or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:D
05
Letter
د
dāl
d

A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.

Type:]
06
Letter
ة
tāʾ marbūṭa
a

The 'tied tāʾ' — marks a feminine ending, sounded as a soft 'a'.

Type:M
← First letter shown leftmost; the actual word is read right-to-left in script.
How to type it

The keystrokes, in order.

On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 6 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.

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Sequence
  1. 01[ج
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03]د
  4. 04Dي
  5. 05]د
  6. 06Mة
Composedجَديدة
جَديدة
Practice

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