المخطوطة عند المترجم.

The manuscript is with the translator.

Breakdown of المخطوطة عند المترجم.

• عند: at
• المخطوطة: the manuscript
• المترجم: the translator

Questions & Answers about المخطوطة عند المترجم.

Why is there no word for is in this sentence?

Because Arabic normally leaves out the present-tense verb to be in sentences like this.

So المخطوطة عند المترجم literally looks like:

• the manuscript
• with / at the translator

But it naturally means The manuscript is with the translator.

This kind of sentence is called a nominal sentence. In the present tense, Arabic usually does not say is / am / are.

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What does عند mean here?

Here, عند means something like:

• with
• in the possession of
• at the place of

So عند المترجم means with the translator or in the translator’s possession.

This is a very common Arabic way to express possession or where something is located relative to a person.

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Why are both المخطوطة and المترجم definite?