هيدا مش هيدا — هيدي
this one, not that one — this (f) one
In the story
هيدا مش هيدا — هيدي.
Nour
She’s tuning your ear. هيدا — hayda — is “this” for masculine words or as a neutral default. هيدي — haydi — is for feminine nouns. تفّاحة — tfa7a, apple — ends with a -a sound; it’s feminine. So say هيدي تفّاحة. The correction line she…
إي… هيدي تفّاحة. وقدّيش هيدا؟
Learn it in the story
This phrase appears in the lesson:
Level pre-A1 · Lesson 12