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The word
نَسْتَأْجِر

nastaajir

we rent
Arabicنَسْتَأْجِر
Arabizinastaajir
Translationwe rent
TypeVerb
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ن
nūn
n

A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.

Type:K
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
س
sīn
s

A plain 's'. Three small teeth in a row.

Type:S
04
Letter
ت
tāʾ
t

A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.

Type:J
05
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
06
Letter
أ
hamza on alif
ʾa

A glottal stop carried on an alif.

Type:Shift+H
07
Letter
ج
jīm
j

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

Type:[
08
Diacritic
ـِ
kasra
i

A short 'i' — a small stroke written below the letter.

Type:Shift+A
09
Letter
ر
rāʾ
r

A rolled 'r' — closer to Spanish than English.

Type:V
← 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 — 11 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
  1. 01Kن
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Sس
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05Jت
  6. 06Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  7. 07Shift+Hأ
  8. 08Shift+Xـْ
  9. 09[ج
  10. 10Shift+Aـِkasra
  11. 11Vر
Composedنَسْتَأْجِر
نَسْتَأْجِر
Practice

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