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The word
تَرى

tara

see, you see, she sees
Arabicتَرى
Arabizitara
Translationsee, you see, she sees
TypeFeminine verb
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

تَرى 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
ر
rāʾ
r

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

Type:V
04
Letter
ى
alif maqṣūra
ā

A dotless yāʾ that sounds like a long 'a'; only ever at a word's end.

Type:N
← 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 — 4 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. 01Jت
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03Vر
  4. 04Nى
Composedتَرى
تَرى
Practice

Type تَرى until your fingers know it.

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