Breakdown of العلاقة بين اللاعبين مهمة.
Questions & Answers about العلاقة بين اللاعبين مهمة.
Because Arabic often leaves out the present-tense to be.
So العلاقة بين اللاعبين مهمة literally looks like the relationship between the players important, but it means The relationship between the players is important.
This is very normal in both Standard Arabic and Levantine. If you wanted past tense, you would usually add something like كان (was).
Because مهمة here is the predicate of the sentence, not an adjective inside the noun phrase.
- العلاقة المهمة = the important relationship
- العلاقة مهمة = the relationship is important
That is a very important difference in Arabic.
In your sentence, مهمة is telling us something about العلاقة بين اللاعبين, so it stays without ال.
Because it matches العلاقة, which is a feminine noun.
In Arabic, when a word describes a noun, it usually agrees with it in gender.
Here, the thing being described as important is العلاقة (the relationship), not اللاعبين (the players).
So:
- العلاقة = feminine singular
- مهمة = feminine singular
That match is exactly what we expect.