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Audio with Theyab's pronunciation

There is only one word in Arabic for "the" which is al or ال.

However, when Arabic is spoken: words beginning with "sun" or shamsiyah letters change the sound of the al slightly.

Here are the sun letters:

ﺕ

ﺙ

ﺩ

ﺫ

ﺭ

ﺯ

ﺱ

ﺵ

ﺹ

ﺽ

ﻁ

ﻅ

ﻝ

ﻥ

t

th

d

dh

r

z

s

sh

9

'9

6

'6

l

n

If a word begins with the letter "n" like the word naf6, when you add the definitive article al to the beginning of the word, its sound changes. It becomes an-naf6.

Another word of the day was sufrah, dining area, so when you say "the dining area" you say as-sufrah. And so on.