Questions & Answers about افتكر تحط التليفون على الشاحن قبل ما تنام.
Yes. Here افتكر is an imperative, so it means remember.
The verb يفتكر in Egyptian Arabic can mean both remember and think, depending on context. In this sentence, since it comes first and is followed by an action someone should do, the natural meaning is remember to...
Context is what tells you it is an imperative here, not a past tense.
Because Egyptian Arabic does not use an infinitive like English to put.
In English, you say remember to put.
In Egyptian Arabic, after a verb like افتكر, the next verb is often put in the imperfect form:
- افتكر تحط = literally something like remember you-put
- natural English meaning: remember to put
So تحط is doing the job that to put does in English.
تحط is the imperfect form of حط, which means put / place.
Here it is the 2nd person singular masculine form, so literally it means you put.
That may feel strange to an English speaker, but after verbs like افتكر, عايز, لازم, and similar expressions, Egyptian Arabic often uses this kind of form where English would use an infinitive.