The word
تَأْخُذون
taakhudhun
you all takeArabicتَأْخُذون
Arabizitaakhudhun
Translationyou all take
TypeMasculine verb
CategoryTravel & places →
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter
The word, broken down.
تَأْخُذون reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
01
Letter
ت
tāʾ
t
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
Type:J
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a
A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.
Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
أ
hamza on alif
ʾa
A glottal stop carried on an alif.
Type:Shift+H
04
Letter
خ
khāʾ
kh
The throaty 'kh' — like the 'ch' in Bach or the Scottish 'loch'.
Type:O
05
Diacritic
ـُ
ḍamma
u
A short 'u' — a small loop written above the letter.
Type:Shift+E
06
Letter
ذ
dhāl
dh
The 'th' in 'this'. Like dāl, with one dot above.
Type:`
07
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū
A 'w' — or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
Type:,
08
Letter
ن
nūn
n
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
Type:K
← 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 — 9 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
- 01J→ت
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03Shift+H→أ
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05O→خ
- 06Shift+E→ـُḍamma
- 07`→ذ
- 08,→و
- 09K→ن
Composedتَأْخُذون