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In Egyptian Arabic, هـ (or sometimes حـ) attached to the present-tense verb marks the future.
So:
- يسلم = he hands over / he delivers
- هيسلم = he will hand over / he will deliver
This is the normal colloquial Egyptian way to talk about the future. In Modern Standard Arabic, you would more often see سـ or سوف instead.
Because Egyptian Arabic very often uses subject + verb + object word order in everyday speech.
So this sentence is:
- الموظف = the employee
- هيسلم = will deliver / hand over
- الجهاز = the device
- بكرة = tomorrow
That order is very natural in Egyptian Arabic. Arabic can also use verb-first order in some contexts, but this subject-first pattern is especially common in spoken dialects.
Because ال is the Arabic definite article, meaning the.
So:
- موظف = an employee
- الموظف = the employee
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