Breakdown of استحوذ على البنك من قبل مجموعة عالمية.
الal
the
مجموعةmajmûʿa
group / collection (of designs)
بنكbank
bank
عالميâlamiyy
global
Questions & Answers about استحوذ على البنك من قبل مجموعة عالمية.
How does من قبل work grammatically in this sentence?
The phrase مِنْ قِبَلِ translates to 'by' and is used in modern Arabic to introduce the explicit doer of a passive verb. It is a fixed prepositional phrase, so the noun that follows it (مجموعة) takes the genitive case (majrur).
Why doesn't the passive verb agree in gender with the agent (مجموعة)?
In passive sentences, the verb agrees with the receiver of the action, never the doer introduced by مِنْ قِبَلِ. Furthermore, because استحوذ (to acquire) requires the preposition على, the entire phrase على البنك becomes the receiver (the deputy agent). Whenever a prepositional phrase acts as the deputy agent, the passive verb is permanently locked into the default 3rd-person masculine singular form.
How is the passive Form X verb استحوذ pronounced here?
It is pronounced اُسْتُحْوِذَ (ustuHwidha). To form the past passive of a Form X verb, you change the internal vowels so that the first and third letters take a Damma (u sound), and the letter before the end of the root takes a Kasra (i sound).
If we rewrote this as an active sentence, how would it change?
You would drop مِنْ قِبَلِ and make the group the regular subject: استحوذت مجموعة عالمية على البنك. Notice that the verb becomes active and adds a feminine ت ending to agree with the subject مجموعة, while the prepositional phrase على البنك stays exactly the same.