Breakdown of تأخر الموظف وهو يعتقد أن عذره مقبول.
الal
the
وwa
and
هوhuwa
he / his / him (attached)
موظفmuwazzaf
employee
هhu
his / him (object) / it (dummy pronoun after لأن)
أنanna
that (conjunction)
اعتقدi'taqada
to believe
عذر'udhr
excuse
تأخرta'akhkhara
to be late
مقبولmaqbûl
acceptable
Questions & Answers about تأخر الموظف وهو يعتقد أن عذره مقبول.
Why is there a و before هو يعتقد? Does it just mean "and"?
Here, the و is acting as a "circumstantial and" (often called waaw al-haal). It connects the main action (the employee being late) to the state he was in while it happened. You can also translate it as "while", making the literal meaning "The employee was late while he believes...".
Why do we use أن here instead of إن for the word "that"?
We use أن (anna) because it connects a verb like يعتقد (he believes) to the new clause that follows it. You use إن (inna) at the very beginning of a sentence, or after the verb for "to say" (قال). Since this is in the middle of the sentence connecting his belief to what he believes, أن is the correct choice.
What short vowel goes on the letter ر in the word عذره (his excuse)?
It takes a fatha (an "a" sound), making it عذرَه ('udhra-hu). This is because it comes directly after أن (anna). Words like أن and إن force the noun immediately following them into the accusative case, which usually ends in a fatha.
The word مقبول is translated as "acceptable". What kind of word is it structurally?
مقبول (maqbuul) is built on the "maf'uul" pattern, which Arabic uses to create passive participles (words describing the receiver of an action). Because the root letters ق-ب-ل relate to accepting, مقبول literally means "accepted".
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