Fatḥa, kasra, ḍamma
The three short vowels — a stroke above for a, a stroke below for i, a small wāw above for u — on every letter, with sound.
Three marks, three sounds. Each sits on the letter it follows:
- fatḥa — a small stroke above: — a
- kasra — a small stroke below: — i
- ḍamma — a small curl (a tiny wāw) above: — u
Read the consonant and the vowel as one beat. Not “b… a”, but ba.
Every letter, every vowel
Press a syllable to hear it, or press the dashed letter on the right of a row to hear the whole row. When you can read a row without the Latin, press hide latin.
بَfatḥaa — stroke above
بِkasrai — stroke below
بُḍammau — little waw
Heavy letters darken the vowel
After a heavy letter the a sounds deeper, almost like the o in “hot”: compare and , and . Same mark, different colour of sound.
Your first words
Every one of these is just short syllables joined together. Read them first, then press.
🎧 Which vowel did you hear?
10 sounds. Listen, then pick what you heard — no reading the answer first.
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