قطرة العين وبخاخ الانف في الروشتة.

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Breakdown of قطرة العين وبخاخ الانف في الروشتة.

• الروشتة: the prescription
• قطرة العين: the eye drops
• بخاخ الانف: the nasal spray

Questions & Answers about قطرة العين وبخاخ الانف في الروشتة.

What are the main chunks of this sentence?

A helpful way to see it is as four chunks:

• قطرة العين = eye drop / eye-drops
• و = and
• بخاخ الانف = nasal spray
• في الروشتة = in/on the prescription

So the sentence is basically a noun phrase plus another noun phrase, followed by a prepositional phrase.

Why is there no word for are in the sentence?

Because in Arabic, the verb to be is usually not said in the present tense.

So where English says:

• The eye drops and nasal spray are on the prescription

Arabic can simply say:

• قطرة العين وبخاخ الانف في الروشتة

This is completely normal. The is/are idea is understood automatically from context.

Is قطرة العين an example of the Arabic construct phrase pattern?