Questions & Answers about بعد الاجتماع أذهب إلى المستشفى لأن أمي هناك.
Can you break the sentence down word by word?
Yes:
- بعد = after
- الاجتماع = the meeting
- أذهب = I go / I am going / I will go
- إلى = to
- المستشفى = the hospital
- لأن = because
- أمي = my mother
- هناك = there
So the structure is literally:
After the meeting, I go to the hospital because my mother is there.
In natural English, that often becomes After the meeting, I’m going to the hospital because my mother is there or After the meeting, I’ll go to the hospital because my mother is there.
Why is there no أنا for I?
Because Arabic often leaves subject pronouns out when the verb already shows who the subject is.
- أذهب already means I go
- If you said أنا أذهب, that would be more emphatic, like I am the one who go(es) or I go
In normal neutral Arabic, just أذهب is enough.
Does أذهب mean I go, I am going, or I will go?
It can mean all of those, depending on context.
In Modern Standard Arabic, the imperfect verb أذهب can express: