Long vowels and first syllables in Arabic

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• A fatḥa followed by an alif gives a long “a”. How do you read بَا?
• A kasra followed by a yāʾ gives a long “i”. How do you read بِي?
• A ḍamma followed by a wāw gives a long “u”. How do you read بُو?
• Which letters are also used to write the long vowels?
• Which of these words reads bāb (“a door”)?
• Which of these words reads nūr (“light”)?
• Which of these words reads fīl (“an elephant”)?
• In بَا, the alif lengthens the “a”: it reads “bā”.