هل تستطيع أن تغلق الباب؟ المفتاح على الكرسي قرب الحقيبة.

(yes/no question marker)

Breakdown of هل تستطيع أن تغلق الباب؟ المفتاح على الكرسي قرب الحقيبة.

• أن: (subordinating particle)
• الحقيبة: bag
• قرب: near

Questions & Answers about هل تستطيع أن تغلق الباب؟ المفتاح على الكرسي قرب الحقيبة.

How is this sentence pronounced?

A careful MSA-style pronunciation is:

hal tastaṭīʿu an tughliqa al-bāb? al-miftāḥu ʿalā al-kursī qurb al-ḥaqība.

A few notes:

• تستطيع is pronounced tastaṭīʿu, with an emphatic ṭ.
• In normal unvocalized writing, short vowels are not shown, so learners often see the same spelling without knowing the exact endings.
• In everyday reading, many speakers do not fully pronounce case endings, so you may also hear something closer to al-miftāḥ ʿalā al-kursī qurb al-ḥaqība.

What does هل do at the beginning?

هل is a yes/no question particle.

It turns a statement into a question, similar to English do / can / is question structure, but Arabic does not need extra support words the way English does.

• تستطيع أن تغلق الباب = you can close the door
• هل تستطيع أن تغلق الباب؟ = can you close the door?

So هل is one of the most common ways to ask a neutral yes/no question in Modern Standard Arabic.

Why is the verb تستطيع used here?

تستطيع means you are able / you can.

It comes from the verb استطاع = to be able to. In this sentence, it is addressing one male person.

So the form tells you:

• تـ = you
• the full form =