Breakdown of الاحتفال العشرون للمؤسسة تتويج مجيد.
الal
the
لli
for, to (attached)
عشرون'ishrûna
twenty
احتفالihtifâl
celebration
Questions & Answers about الاحتفال العشرون للمؤسسة تتويج مجيد.
Why is "twentieth" written as العشرون instead of العشرين in this sentence?
العشرون is acting as an adjective modifying the subject الاحتفال (the celebration). Because the subject of the sentence is in the nominative case, this ordinal decade takes the nominative sound masculine plural ending ـون (-uun) rather than the accusative/genitive ـين (-iin).
Why does العشرون have the definite article الـ here?
In Arabic, ordinal decades behave exactly like regular adjectives. Because it describes the definite noun الاحتفال (the celebration), it must also be definite to match. The phrase translates literally as "the celebration, the twentieth".
If the translation is "The twentieth celebration of the institution", why didn't the author use an Idafa (possessive) construction?
If the author used an Idafa like احتفال المؤسسة (the institution's celebration), the word احتفال would be forced to drop its definite article. By using the preposition لـ (for/belonging to) in للمؤسسة, الاحتفال keeps its definite article, allowing the adjective العشرون to attach directly and clearly to it without breaking the flow.
How do we know where the implied "is" goes in this sentence?
The break happens just before تتويج (culmination). The first half of the sentence, الاحتفال العشرون للمؤسسة, acts as one large definite subject phrase. The word تتويج is indefinite, and this shift from a definite subject phrase to an indefinite noun marks the beginning of the predicate, which is where the implied "is" belongs.