هو يلغي الطلب.

The sentence is:

هو = he
يلغي = cancels / is cancelling
الطلب = the request / the order

So grammatically:

• هو is the subject pronoun.
• يلغي is the verb.
• الطلب is the direct object, the thing being cancelled.

In fully vocalized MSA, you could write it as هُوَ يُلْغِي الطَّلَبَ.

Because Arabic verbs already show the subject, هو is often optional here.

• يلغي الطلب already means he cancels the request/order.
• هو يلغي الطلب makes the subject explicit.

Including هو can add:

• clarity
• slight emphasis
• a more subject-first sentence structure

So both are correct, but هو is not strictly necessary.

يلغي is in the imperfect tense/form.

In Modern Standard Arabic, the imperfect can express:

• the present: he cancels
• the ongoing present: he is cancelling
• habitual action: he cancels regularly
• sometimes the future, if the context supports it

In this sentence, it most naturally means he cancels or he is cancelling.

The dictionary form is the past-tense verb ألغى, meaning to cancel or to abolish.

Related forms:

• ألغى = he cancelled
• يُلغي = he cancels / is cancelling
• إلغاء = cancellation

This verb is a Form IV verb, and its final root letter is weak, which is why the imperfect ends with a long -ī sound.

That final -ي is part of how this verb behaves in the imperfect.

يُلغي is pronounced roughly yul-ghī, with a long ee sound at the end.

This happens because the verb is a weak-final verb. In other words, its last root letter is one of the weak letters, and that affects how the word looks and sounds in different forms.

So the ending is not a pronoun or a separate word; it is just part of the verb form.

It is written الطلب, but it is pronounced aṭ-ṭalab, not al-talab.

That is because ط is a sun letter. With sun letters, the ل of الـ is not pronounced; instead, the following consonant is doubled.

So:

• written: الطلب
• pronounced: aṭ-ṭalab

If fully vocalized, it would be الطَّلَب.

Because it has the definite article الـ, which means the.

So:

• طلب = a request / request
• الطلب = the request / the order

This sentence is talking about a specific request or order, not just any request in general.

It is in the accusative case because it is the direct object of the verb يلغي.

In fully vocalized Arabic, that would be:

الطَّلَبَ

However, in normal Arabic writing, short vowels are usually not written, so you normally just see:

الطلب

Also, at the end of a sentence, speakers often pause and do not pronounce the final case ending clearly.

Yes. That is a completely normal sentence.

Arabic allows both:

• يلغي الطلب
• هو يلغي الطلب

Very often, the version without هو sounds more neutral and concise, because the verb already tells you the subject is he.

The version with هو is still perfectly correct, especially if you want to make the subject more explicit.

غ is not like the English g in go.

It is a sound made farther back in the mouth or throat. For many learners, it sounds somewhat similar to:

• the French or Parisian r
• the German r in some accents

So يلغي is approximately:

yul-ghī

with:

• yul = like yool but shorter
• gh = the Arabic غ
• ī = a long ee sound

No. طلب can mean several related things depending on context, such as:

• request
• order
• application
• demand

So هو يلغي الطلب could mean:

• He cancels the request
• He cancels the order
• He cancels the application

The exact translation depends on the situation.

You would say:

هي تلغي الطلب

The main change is the verb:

• هو يلغي = he cancels
• هي تلغي = she cancels

So the imperfect verb changes to match the subject’s person and gender.