Questions & Answers about الفريق عنده طاقة كتير.
In Levantine, possession is very often expressed with عند + a pronoun suffix.
So:
- عنده literally means at him / at it
- but in everyday speech it commonly means he has / it has
So الفريق عنده طاقة كتير is literally something like:
- the team, at-it a lot of energy
Natural English: The team has a lot of energy.
This is much more normal in spoken Levantine than using a formal verb like يملك for to own / possess.
That -ه refers back to الفريق.
This is a very common Arabic pattern: you mention the noun first, then use a pronoun inside the rest of the sentence to refer back to it.
So the structure is roughly:
- الفريق = the team
- عنده طاقة كتير = it has a lot of energy
This is completely normal in Arabic. English usually does not repeat the reference this way, but Arabic often does.
Because الفريق is grammatically singular masculine.
Even though a team is made up of many people, the word itself is a singular noun, so Levantine uses singular agreement with it here: