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The word
زَوْجَتَك

zawjatak

your wife
Arabicزَوْجَتَك
Arabizizawjatak
Translationyour wife
TypeFeminine noun
CategoryFamily
Audio
Native speaker, MSA
Letter by letter

The word, broken down.

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

01
Letter
ز
zāy
z

A plain 'z'. Like rāʾ, with one dot above.

Type:.
02
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
03
Letter
و
wāw
w / ū

A 'w' — or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.

Type:,
04
Letter
ج
jīm
j

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

Type:[
05
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
06
Letter
ت
tāʾ
t

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

Type:J
07
Diacritic
ـَ
fatḥa
a

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

Type:Shift+Q
08
Letter
ك
kāf
k

A plain 'k'.

Type:;
← 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
  1. 01.ز
  2. 02Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  3. 03,و
  4. 04Shift+Xـْ
  5. 05[ج
  6. 06Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  7. 07Jت
  8. 08Shift+Qـَfatḥa
  9. 09;ك
Composedزَوْجَتَك
زَوْجَتَك
Practice

Type زَوْجَتَك until your fingers know it.

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Practice just zawjatakStart the Family set