The word
جِدّاً
jiddan
veryArabicجِدّاً
Arabizijiddan
Translationvery
TypeAdverb
CategoryGreetings & introductions →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
جِدّاً 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
ـِ
kasra
i
A short 'i' — a small stroke written below the letter.
Type:Shift+A
03
Letter
د
dāl
d
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
Type:]
04
Diacritic
ـّ
shadda
double
Doubles the letter it sits on — hold the consonant a beat longer.
Type:Shift+`
05
Letter
ا
alif
ā
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
Type:H
06
Diacritic
ـً
tanwīn fatḥ
an
Adds an '-an' ending — two slanted strokes above.
Type:Shift+W
← 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.
Practice typing this word →Sequence
- 01[→ج
- 02Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 03]→د
- 04Shift+`→ـّshadda
- 05H→ا
- 06Shift+W→ـًtanwīn fatḥ
Composedجِدّاً