Breakdown of وجدنا التحديث على بعض الشاشات.
على'ala
on / of (evidence of) / to (lie to someone) / for (difficult for someone)
وجدwajada
to find / to exist, there is (passive)
شاشةshâsha
screen
بعضba'd
some
تحديثtahdîth
update
Questions & Answers about وجدنا التحديث على بعض الشاشات.
Why does the Arabic say بعض الشاشات with the word for "the" if the translation is just "some screens"?
In Arabic, words like بعض (some) and كل (all/every) act as the first part of an Idafa (possession) structure. When you attach بعض to a definite plural noun like الشاشات (the screens), it literally means "a part of the screens" or "some of the screens". We usually just translate this naturally as "some screens" in English.
How does the preposition على (on) affect the grammar of the Idafa phrase بعض الشاشات?
A preposition affects the word immediately after it. Here, على affects the quantifier بعض, putting it in the genitive case (which means it takes a "kasra" or "i" vowel sound at the end). The second word, الشاشات, is also in the genitive case, but that is simply because it is the second half of the Idafa construction, which always forces the second word into that case.
Where is the word for "we" in وجدنا (we found)?
The "we" is built directly into the verb itself! The base past tense verb for "he found" is وجد. By adding the suffix ـنا (-na) to the end, it changes to "we found". This ـنا ending is the standard way to conjugate any past tense verb for "we" in Arabic.
Is الشاشات (the screens) a regular plural?
Yes! The singular word for screen is شاشة, which ends in the feminine marker taa marbuta (ة). To make it plural, we drop that marker and add the regular feminine plural ending ـات (-aat), giving us شاشات.
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