بعد أن أقرأ الخبر في الصحيفة، أرسل رسالة إلى صديقتي.

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Breakdown of بعد أن أقرأ الخبر في الصحيفة، أرسل رسالة إلى صديقتي.

• ي: my
• الى: to
• يقرأ: to read

Questions & Answers about بعد أن أقرأ الخبر في الصحيفة، أرسل رسالة إلى صديقتي.

Why are أقرأ and أرسل both in the present tense here?

In Arabic, the imperfect form (often called the present tense) can do more than just mean present time.

Here it can express:

• a habitual action: After I read the news in the newspaper, I send a message to my friend
• or a future sequence, depending on context: After I read..., I will send...

So Arabic does not always need a separate future form the way English often does. The time reference is often understood from context.

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What does أن do in بعد أن أقرأ?

أن introduces a subordinate clause, roughly like that / to / after depending on the structure.

In بعد أن أقرأ:

• بعد = after
• أن أقرأ = the clause I read

Together, بعد أن أقرأ means after I read.

Also, in formal grammar, أن causes the following imperfect verb to be in the subjunctive. So if full case vowels were written, it would be:

• أقرأَ

In normal Arabic writing, those short vowels are usually not written, so you just see أقرأ.

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Why is there no separate word for I?

Because Arabic verbs already include the subject.