In this lesson we will take the shaddah and three consonants :

1) Shaddah

Shaddah is not a letter of the alphabet, it is just a mark written above a consonant to indicate that it is stressed twice in the pronunciation of a given word.

Note: The fatha or dammah is written above the shadda while the kasrah is written below it or below the consonant:

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Now we move to today's consonants:

As we mentioned in the last lessons the letters take different shape based on their position in the word.

Practice:

1) case of

a) in the beginning of the word:

b) in the middle of the word:

• After a connector

2) case of

Summary

All the letters are connective (change shape in order to connect to the letter following them).

Shaddah occurs in uttering two consecutive syllables , the first of which ends in a consonant and the second starts with the same consonant.

The following tables summarizes the various forms of the letter in different positions in a given word:

Note: When at the end of the word and after a non connecter, all these letter take the basic shape .

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