Breakdown of يثبت التحديث على الخادم الآن.
الal
the
الآنal-ân
now
على'ala
on / of (evidence of) / to (lie to someone) / for (difficult for someone)
تحديثtahdîth
Questions & Answers about يثبت التحديث على الخادم الآن.
Since there are no vowels written, how do we know يثبت is passive and not active?
Context tells us. If it were the active Form II verb يُثَبِّتُ (yuthabbitu), it would mean 'he is installing'. But since the update isn't installing anything itself, we read it as the passive يُثَبَّتُ (yuthabbatu), meaning 'is being installed'. In the present tense passive of derived forms, the first prefix letter gets a 'u' sound and the second-to-last root letter gets an 'a' sound.
Why does التحديث act as the subject of the sentence if it is the thing receiving the action?
In Arabic, when you use a passive verb, the direct object gets promoted to take the place of the subject. It is called the deputy subject and follows the exact same grammatical rules as a normal subject, meaning it takes the nominative case and ends in a 'u' sound (damma): التحديثُ.
Is the word التحديث (the update) related to the Form II verb patterns we have studied?
Yes! It is the verbal noun (masdar) for the Form II active verb حَدَّثَ (to update or modernize). Form II verbal nouns very predictably follow the 'taf'eel' pattern, making تحديث the standard noun for 'an update'.
The word الخادم translates to 'servant'. How does it mean 'server' here?
خادم is the active participle of the verb خَدَمَ (to serve), so it literally means 'one who serves'. In modern Arabic, this word was directly adapted to mean a computer 'server' because it serves data or services to other computers.