Questions & Answers about الزوجة هناك.
How does the word for "wife" show that it is feminine?
The word الزوجة (the wife) ends with the letter Taa' Marboota (ة). This is the most common way to show that a noun is feminine in Arabic. If you take it off, you get الزوج (the husband).
Where is the word "is" in this sentence?
Arabic doesn't use a word for "is" or "are" in the present tense. You simply put the subject الزوجة (the wife) right next to the location هناك (there) to mean "The wife is there".
Does the Taa' Marboota (ة) at the end of الزوجة make a "t" sound here?
Usually, no. When you pause or stop at the end of a word with a Taa' Marboota, it makes a soft "ah" sound, so الزوجة is pronounced "al-zawja". It generally only makes a "t" sound if you connect it smoothly to a following word using formal grammatical vowel endings.
How do we know this means "the wife" and not just "a wife"?
The word starts with the attached prefix الـ (al-), which is the Arabic word for "the". Without it, زوجة (zawja) simply means "a wife".
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