بريد الاسترداد موثوق.

recovery email

Breakdown of بريد الاسترداد موثوق.

• موثوق: trusted; reliable

Questions & Answers about بريد الاسترداد موثوق.

Why is there no Arabic word for is in this sentence?

In the present tense, Arabic usually does not use a separate word for is / am / are.

So:

• بريد الاسترداد موثوق
  literally looks like
• recovery email trusted/reliable

but it means:

• The recovery email is trusted/reliable.

This is a very common Arabic sentence pattern: subject + predicate, with no present-tense to be.

If you wanted the past tense, then Arabic would use a verb, for example:

• كان بريد الاسترداد موثوقًا = The recovery email was reliable.

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Why does بريد not have الـ even though the whole phrase means the recovery email?

Because بريد الاسترداد is an iḍāfa construction, often called a genitive/possessive construction.

In an iḍāfa:

• the first noun usually does not take الـ
• the second noun determines whether the whole phrase is definite or indefinite

Here:

• بريد = mail / email
• الاسترداد = the recovery / retrieval

So:

• بريد الاسترداد literally = email of the recovery
• natural English = the recovery email

Because الاسترداد is definite, the whole phrase بريد الاسترداد is also definite.

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Is بريد الاسترداد a possessive phrase?