The word
نَسْتَأْجِر
nastaajir
we rentArabicنَسْتَأْجِر
Arabizinastaajir
Translationwe rent
TypeVerb
CategoryTravel & places →
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
- 01K→ن
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03S→س
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05J→ت
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07Shift+H→أ
- 08Shift+X→ـْ
- 09[→ج
- 10Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 11V→ر
Composedنَسْتَأْجِر