هو يبقى هنا للأبد.

يبقى is the verb to remain / to stay / to continue to be.

In this sentence, it means that he remains or he stays here.

It comes from the root ب ق ي, which is connected with the idea of remaining or lasting.

So:

• يبقى = he remains / he stays

Yes. In Arabic, the verb يبقى already tells you the subject is he.

So the sentence could simply be:

• يبقى هنا للأبد

Adding هو can give extra emphasis or clarity, similar to saying:

• He stays here forever.
• As for him, he stays here forever.

In many cases, Arabic does not need an explicit subject pronoun unless the speaker wants emphasis, contrast, or clarity.

Grammatically, يبقى is in the imperfect form, which often covers:

• present
• future
• habitual meaning
• general statements

So depending on context, يبقى can mean:

• he stays
• he remains
• he will stay

If you want a clearly marked future in MSA, Arabic often uses:

• سيبقى = he will remain
• سوف يبقى = he will remain

So a more explicitly future version would be:

• سيبقى هنا للأبد

It is understandable, but in formal MSA, سيبقى هنا للأبد or يبقى هنا إلى الأبد may sound more natural depending on context.

A native speaker might expect:

• سيبقى هنا إلى الأبد = He will stay here forever
• يبقى هنا إلى الأبد = He stays/remains here forever

The version with هو is not wrong, but it sounds more emphatic than neutral.

Both expressions mean forever.

• إلى الأبد literally means to eternity / forever
• للأبد also means forever, and is very common

In many contexts, they are very close in meaning.
However, إلى الأبد is often felt to be slightly more standard or classical in very formal usage.

So:

• يبقى هنا للأبد
• يبقى هنا إلى الأبد

Both are understandable and natural.

Arabic often prefers verb + subject + other information, or simply verb + complement.

So:

• يبقى هنا = he stays here

The word هنا means here, and it naturally comes after the verb in this sentence.

You could also start with هنا for emphasis, but the basic neutral order is very normal:

• يبقى هنا للأبد

In Arabic, present-tense sentences often do not use a separate word for is / are the way English does.

But here the main point is even stronger: the sentence uses a full verb, يبقى = remains/stays, so no extra is is needed.

English says:

• He stays here forever

Arabic says:

• هو يبقى هنا للأبد

There is already a complete verb, so nothing like is needs to be added.

يبقى is:

• 3rd person
• masculine
• singular
• imperfect

So it means:

• he remains
• he stays

Related forms include:

• أبقى = I remain
• تبقى = you remain or she remains (depending on context)
• نبقى = we remain
• يبقون = they remain

The final ى is called alif maqṣūrah. It looks like ى but represents a long ā sound at the end.

So يبقى is pronounced approximately yabqā.

This happens because the verb comes from a root with a weak final consonant:

• ب ق ي

Many Arabic verbs with weak letters change shape in some forms, especially at the end.

It is pronounced approximately:

• yab-qā

A rough breakdown:

• ya = ya
• bq = a cluster, with b followed by q
• ā = long a

The ق is a deep q sound, not an English k.

So the whole word sounds like:

• yabqā

This is a very useful question.

In many Arabic dialects, forms related to يبقى can have extra meanings such as:

• become
• then / so / therefore
• other conversational uses

But in Modern Standard Arabic, يبقى here means:

• remain
• stay

So when reading MSA, you should not automatically give it colloquial meanings.

Yes, absolutely.

That is often more neutral in Arabic, because the verb already shows the subject:

• يبقى هنا للأبد

Adding هو is more like:

• He stays here forever with some emphasis on he.

So both are possible, but the version without هو is often simpler and more typical unless you want emphasis.

A common MSA way is:

• لا يبقى هنا للأبد = He does not stay here forever

If you want a future negative, you might say:

• لن يبقى هنا للأبد = He will not stay here forever

So:

• لا is often used for general or present negation
• لن is used for future negation

Then the verb would be:

• هي تبقى هنا للأبد

Here:

• هي = she
• تبقى = she remains / stays

So the verb changes to match the gender of the subject.

Yes, Arabic word order is somewhat flexible, especially for adverbs and prepositional phrases. But some orders sound more neutral than others.

The basic sentence:

• هو يبقى هنا للأبد

You may also see:

• هو يبقى للأبد هنا but this is less neutral and may sound marked or stylistically different.

For a learner, the safest choice is:

• يبقى هنا للأبد

No. هنا is an adverb of place, and words like this do not behave like ordinary fully declined nouns in the sentence.

So you simply use:

• هنا = here

You do not normally worry about adding case endings to it in the way you would with many nouns.

A word-for-word breakdown is:

• هو = he
• يبقى = remains / stays
• هنا = here
• للأبد = forever

So the structure is essentially:

• He remains here forever.

That is a very close match between Arabic and English in this case.