Word
صديقي يقرأ ساعات الزيارة ويحجز تذكرة الدخول مسبقا.
Meaning
My friend reads the visiting hours and books the admission ticket in advance.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Breakdown of صديقي يقرأ ساعات الزيارة ويحجز تذكرة الدخول مسبقا.
يقرأ
to read
صديق
friend
يحجز موعداyahjizu maw'idan
to book an appointment
تذكرة دخولtadhkiratu dukhûlin
admission ticket
Questions & Answers about صديقي يقرأ ساعات الزيارة ويحجز تذكرة الدخول مسبقا.
Why does صديقي mean my friend, and why isn’t there ال?
صديقي is made of:
- صديق = friend
- ـي = my
So صديقي literally means my friend.
When a noun has a possessive suffix like ـي, it is already definite, so you do not add ال. That is why Arabic says صديقي, not الصديقي.
Why does the sentence start with صديقي instead of a verb?
Arabic allows more than one normal word order.
Here, صديقي يقرأ... is a noun-first sentence structure, similar to My friend reads... in English. It puts my friend first as the topic.
Arabic could also say:
يقرأ صديقي ساعات الزيارة...
That is also grammatical. Starting with صديقي simply gives the subject a little more prominence.
What exactly is يقرأ?