Complex sentence: In Arabic, short vowels, including those carrying case, are dropped before a pausa, and gender is modified: the Arabic alphabet has a letter ة (tāʾ marbūṭa تاء مربوطة) for the feminine that is classically pronounced in pausa but in liaison.
Split into simpler sentences: In Arabic, short vowels, including those carrying case, are dropped before a pausa, and gender is modified. The Arabic alphabet has a letter ة (tāʾ marbūṭa تاء مربوطة) for the feminine that is classically pronounced in pausa but in liaison.