Breakdown of عليها أن تكمل الإيداع اليوم.
الal
the
على'ala
on / of (evidence of) / to (lie to someone) / for (difficult for someone)
هاhâ
her / her (object) / it (feminine)
أنan
to (with verbs)
اليومal-yawma
today
أكملakmala
to complete
إيداعidâ'
deposit (act of depositing)
Questions & Answers about عليها أن تكمل الإيداع اليوم.
Why does the sentence use عليها to mean "she must"?
In Arabic, obligation is often expressed using the preposition على (on/upon) attached to a pronoun suffix. عليها literally means "upon her," which functions as "she must" or "she has to" when followed by the particle أن and a verb.
How does the word أن affect the verb تكمل?
The word أن (to/that) is a subjunctive particle. It forces the following present-tense verb into the subjunctive mood (mansub). For تكمل, this means its final vowel changes from a damma (u) to a fatha (a), so it is pronounced تكملَ (tukmila).
How do we know that تكمل is a Form IV verb just by looking at it?
In the present tense, Form IV verbs always have a damma (u vowel) on the prefix letter, so the ت becomes tu-. They also have a kasra (i vowel) on the middle root letter, which is the م here. This makes the pronunciation tukmila, which is the classic Form IV present tense pattern.
What type of word is الإيداع (the deposit)?
الإيداع is a verbal noun (masdar) belonging to the Form IV pattern. Its root is و-د-ع. Because the root starts with a weak letter (و), the standard Form IV verbal noun pattern changes the و to a ي for easier pronunciation, giving us إيداع (iydaa') instead of iwdaa'.
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