زميلتي طبعت الورق وادتهولي قبل الاجتماع.

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Breakdown of زميلتي طبعت الورق وادتهولي قبل الاجتماع.

• ي: my
• و: and
• ل: to

Questions & Answers about زميلتي طبعت الورق وادتهولي قبل الاجتماع.

Why does زميلتي mean my female colleague, and what does the -ي ending do?

زميلة means female colleague.

When you add -ي, it becomes زميلتي = my female colleague.

So the breakdown is:

• زميلة = a female colleague
• زميلتي = my female colleague

The word is feminine because it refers to a woman. If it were a male colleague, you would say زميلي = my male colleague.

Why isn’t there a separate word for she in the sentence?

Arabic often does not need an explicit subject pronoun if the subject is already clear.

Here, the subject is already given at the start:

• زميلتي = my female colleague

So after that, the verbs can simply follow:

• طبعت = printed
• وادتهولي = and gave it to me

English usually needs she, but Arabic often doesn’t. Once the subject is clear, repeating it is unnecessary.

How do I know طبعت means she printed here, not I printed?