قبل الاجتماع صورت فيديو قصير عن المشروع.

Before the meeting, I recorded a short video about the project.

Breakdown of قبل الاجتماع صورت فيديو قصير عن المشروع.

• ال: the
• قبل: before
• اجتماع: meeting
• عن: about

Questions & Answers about قبل الاجتماع صورت فيديو قصير عن المشروع.

What does قبل الاجتماع mean exactly, and why isn’t there a verb after قبل?

قبل الاجتماع means before the meeting.

Here, قبل is followed by a noun phrase:

• قبل = before
• الاجتماع = the meeting

So this is the pattern قبل + noun.

In Levantine, if you want to say before followed by a verb, you often use قبل ما:

• قبل الاجتماع = before the meeting
• قبل ما أروح = before I go

What does صورت mean here?

Here صورت means I filmed or I recorded.

The base verb is صوّر, which can mean to photograph, to film, or to record video, depending on context. Because the object is فيديو, the meaning is clearly filmed/recorded a video.

Also, in normal Arabic spelling, short vowels and the doubling mark are usually not written, so صورت is understood as صوّرت.

Is صورت definitely I filmed, or could it mean something else?