Questions & Answers about نزرع شجرة جديدة في الحي.
Where is the word for "we" in this sentence?
You don't need a separate word for "we" (نحن) because the verb itself tells you who is doing the action. In the present tense, starting the verb with the prefix نـ makes it "we". So, نزرع means "we plant".
Why does the Arabic say "tree new" (شجرة جديدة) instead of "new tree"?
In Arabic, adjectives always come after the noun they describe. Because of this rule, you literally write "tree new" instead of "new tree".
Why does the word for "new" (جديدة) end with the letter taa marbuta (ة)?
Adjectives must match the gender of the noun they describe. The word for tree, شجرة, is feminine (which you can tell by its own ة ending). To make the adjective "new" match, we change the masculine جديد to the feminine جديدة.
How do we translate the "a" in "a new tree"?
Arabic actually doesn't have a word for "a" or "an". When a noun doesn't have the word for "the" (الـ) attached to the front of it, it is usually indefinite. So simply writing شجرة automatically means "a tree".