Breakdown of عندها سيارة وردية.
سيارةsayyâra
car
هاhâ
her / her (object) / it (feminine)
عند'inda
at / to have
ورديwardiyy
pink
Questions & Answers about عندها سيارة وردية.
Why does this sentence start with عندها instead of a verb for "to have"?
Arabic doesn't have a direct verb for "to have" in the present tense. Instead, it uses the preposition عند (meaning "at" or "with") plus an attached pronoun. Here, عند is combined with ها (her), so عندها literally means "at her" or "with her", which translates to "she has".
Why does the word for "pink" come after the word for "car"?
In Arabic, adjectives always come after the noun they describe. So instead of saying "pink car" like in English, you say "car pink" (سيارة وردية).
How do we know that سيارة and وردية match each other grammatically?
Adjectives must match their nouns in gender. The word for car, سيارة, is feminine because it ends with the letter taa marbuuta (ة). Therefore, the adjective for pink, وردي, must also become feminine by adding that same ending, making it وردية.
Where is the Arabic word for "a" in this sentence?
Arabic does not have an indefinite article like the English words "a" or "an". By simply not attaching the definite article ال (the) to the beginning of سيارة, it is automatically understood as "a car" rather than "the car".