Tashdid, sukun & tanvin

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◌ّ

Tashdid

تشدید

بچّهbachche

child

Lesson reference

◌ْ Sukun, Marks a letter with no vowel after it.
Signals the consonant is “bare”, mostly seen in careful texts.
مِهْر (mehr), affection
◌ّ Tashdid, Doubles a letter, hold the sound a bit longer.
Written once with the mark instead of writing the letter twice.
بچّه (bachche), child
◌ً Tanvin, Adds an “-an” ending, mostly on adverbs from Arabic.
You’ll meet it most in words like واقعاً (really) and حتماً (definitely).
لطفاً (lotfan), please