Close a syllable with sukuun

Read consonants without inserting an extra vowel, then try ay and aw.

No vowel after this consonant

Sukuun is a small circle above a consonant. It means no vowel follows that consonant; the consonant is still pronounced. Here miim has i and nuun closes the syllable.

مِنْ

min — from

Two vowel glides

After fatḥa, yaa with sukuun gives ay, roughly the vowel in eye; waaw with sukuun gives aw, roughly in cow. These differ from long ii after kasra and long uu after ḍamma.

بَيْ بَوْ

bay / baw — practice chunks

A first home word

Read b + ay + t without adding a vowel after y. The word ends at a pause, so its final t has no case-ending vowel. All letters are already introduced; its meaning is new.

بَيْت

bayt — house