Questions & Answers about الممرض هناك.
How would I change this sentence to say 'The nurse (f) is there'?
You add the Taa' Marboota (ة) to the end of the noun to make it feminine. الممرض (the male nurse) becomes الممرضة (the female nurse). The rest of the sentence stays exactly the same.
Does the word هناك (there) need to change to match the gender of the nurse?
No! Words for locations like هناك (there) and هنا (here) do not have a gender. They never take a Taa' Marboota, regardless of who or what is there.
Where is the word for 'is' in this sentence?
Arabic doesn't use a word for 'is' or 'are' in simple present-tense sentences like this. You just place the subject (الممرض) right next to the information about him (هناك), and the 'is' is naturally understood.
What is the الـ at the beginning of الممرض?
That is the prefix for 'the'. If you take it off and just write ممرض هناك, the sentence changes from 'The nurse is there' to 'A nurse is there.'
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