Questions & Answers about المقعد جنب الكشك فاضي.
What is the basic structure of this sentence?
It is a nominal sentence in the present tense.
- المقعد جنب الكشك = the subject phrase
- فاضي = the predicate adjective
So the sentence is built like:
[the seat next to the kiosk] + [empty]
A very literal word-for-word breakdown would be:
- المقعد = the seat
- جنب = beside / next to
- الكشك = the kiosk
- فاضي = empty / vacant / free
Why is there no word for is?
Because in Levantine Arabic, present-tense sentences like this usually do not use a verb meaning is/am/are.
So instead of saying:
the seat next to the kiosk is empty
Arabic simply says:
the seat next to the kiosk empty
This is completely normal.
If you want other tenses, then a verb appears:
- كان فاضي = it was empty
- رح يكون فاضي = it will be empty
What does جنب mean exactly?