Questions & Answers about الشركة التي أعمل فيها قريبة من محطة القطار.
Why is there no word for is in this sentence?
In Modern Standard Arabic, present-tense sentences usually don’t use an explicit verb to be. So الشركة ... قريبة literally looks like The company ... [is] near.
If you wanted a past tense, you’d use كان: كانت الشركة التي أعمل فيها قريبةً من محطة القطار = The company I worked at was near the train station.
What does التي mean here, and why is it التي (not الذي)?
التي is the relative pronoun meaning that/which (for non-human feminine singular nouns).
Because الشركة (company) is grammatically feminine singular, the matching relative pronoun is التي.
- masculine singular: الذي
- feminine singular: التي
How does the part التي أعمل فيها work grammatically?
It’s a relative clause describing الشركة:
- الشركة = the company
- التي = that/which
- أعمل = I work
- فيها = in it (i.e., in the company)
In Arabic terms, التي is اسم موصول (relative pronoun), and أعمل فيها is صلة الموصول (the relative clause).