Questions & Answers about هذا البرنامج سهل، ولذلك أستعمله كل يوم في المكتب.
Because البرنامج (program) is treated as a masculine singular noun in Modern Standard Arabic, so it takes the masculine singular demonstrative هذا (this).
- هذا = this (masculine singular)
- هذه = this (feminine singular)
So هذا البرنامج means this program.
In Arabic, when a demonstrative like هذا comes before a noun, the noun is usually definite, so it normally takes الـ.
So Arabic says:
- هذا البرنامج = this program
Literally, it looks a bit like this the-program from an English perspective, but that is the normal Arabic structure.
If you said هذا برنامج, it would usually sound less natural in standard usage unless there were a special context.
Because Arabic usually omits the present-tense verb "to be".
So:
- هذا البرنامج سهل literally: natural English: