Take charge of your workday and collaborate effectively by mastering the vocabulary of project management, from setting deadlines to analyzing progress.
Expressing "Both"
To emphasize that two people or things are involved, Arabic uses specific words for "both" that agree in gender and grammatical case with the noun they modify:
- Masculine: كلاهما in the nominative case (for subjects) and كليهما in the accusative or genitive case (for objects).
- Feminine: كلتاهما for the nominative and كلتيهما for the accusative or genitive.
| Both engineers analyzed the indicators. | حللت المهندستان كلتاهما المؤشرات.hallalati al-muhandisatâni kiltâhumâ al-mu'ashsharât. |
| Analyze the two obstacles, both of them! | حللي العائقين كليهما!hallilee al'â'iqayni kilayhimâ |
Actions Already Completed
When giving project updates on a phase (مرحلة), you will often explain that someone had already initiated (بادر) a task while another action took place.
To express that an action "had already" occurred, combine the conjunction و (meaning "while" or "and" in this context) with the particle قد, followed directly by a past-tense verb.
| She motivated the team, having already initiated the new phase. | حفزت الفريق وقد بادرت بالمرحلة الجديدة.haffazati l-fariiqa wa qad bâdarat bil-marhalati l-jadiida |
| The manager motivated the workers, and they had already increased the pace. | حفزت المديرة العمال وقد زادوا الوتيرة.haffazati al-mudîratu al-'ummâla wa qad zâdû al-watîrata |
Time and Purpose Conjunctions
Managing projects requires clearly communicating timelines, conditions, and goals. You will frequently use these conjunctions:
- طالما : as long as
- بينما : while
- كي : in order to
- حتى لا : so that... not
Use these conjunctions when discussing how to utilize (استغل) a mechanism (آلية), measuring the pace (وتيرة) of work, or ensuring that a deadline does not elapse (انقضى).
| We will utilize the mechanism as long as the phase has started. | سنستغل الآلية طالما بدأت المرحلة.sanastaghillu al-âliyyata tâlamâ bada'ati al-marhalatu |
| Initiate the project so the deadline does not elapse. | بادر بالمشروع حتى لا ينقضي الموعد.bâdir bil-mashrou'i hattâ lâ yanqadiya al-maw'idu |
| The time elapsed while both of them analyzed the obstacle. | انقضى الوقت بينما حلل كلاهما العائق.inqadâ al-waqtu baynamâ hallala kilâhumâ al-â'iqa |
| Utilize the mechanism in order to overcome the obstacle. | استغل الآلية كي تتغلب على العائق.istaghilla al-âliyyata kay tataghallaba 'alâ al-'â'iq |
