يبدأ الإنقاذ اليوم.

today

Breakdown of يبدأ الإنقاذ اليوم.

• يبدأ: to begin
• إنقاذ: rescue

Questions & Answers about يبدأ الإنقاذ اليوم.

Why does the sentence start with يبدأ instead of the subject?

Because Arabic very often uses verb–subject order, especially in simple statements.

So:

• يبدأ الإنقاذ اليوم = literally begins the rescue today
• Natural English translation: The rescue begins today

You could also say:

• الإنقاذ يبدأ اليوم

That is also grammatical, but it sounds more like The rescue, it begins today, with extra focus on الإنقاذ.

What exactly is يبدأ?

يبدأ is the present/imperfect form of the verb بدأ, meaning to begin.

Here it means:

• he begins
• it begins

In this sentence, it means it begins, because the subject is الإنقاذ.

Why does يبدأ mean it begins and not he begins here?

Arabic uses the same 3rd person masculine singular verb form for both he and it when the noun is grammatically masculine singular.

Here, الإنقاذ is a masculine singular noun, so the verb is:

• يبدأ = it begins

Arabic grammatical gender does not always match natural gender. Since الإنقاذ is a noun meaning the rescue, Arabic treats it as masculine singular.