ya7taj ila
needs, he needsThe word, broken down.
يَحْتاج إِلى reads right to left. Below, in reading order, each letter — its sound, its shape, its place in the syllable.
A 'y' — or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A short 'a' — a small stroke written above the letter.
A breathy h from deep in the throat — heavier than an English 'h'.
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
A long 'a' vowel — a single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
A soft 'j' (a hard 'g' in Egyptian Arabic). One dot inside.
A glottal stop carried under an alif, with a short 'i'.
A short 'i' — a small stroke written below the letter.
A plain 'l' — a tall upright stroke with a curved foot.
A dotless yāʾ that sounds like a long 'a'; only ever at a word's end.
The keystrokes, in order.
On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 12 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 →- 01D→ي
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03P→ح
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05J→ت
- 06H→ا
- 07[→ج
- 08Space→
- 09Shift+Y→إ
- 10Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 11G→ل
- 12N→ى