الصفحة التي أقرأها الآن فيها خبر مهم.

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Breakdown of الصفحة التي أقرأها الآن فيها خبر مهم.

• الآن: now
• يقرأ: to read
• ها: it/her

Questions & Answers about الصفحة التي أقرأها الآن فيها خبر مهم.

Why is the sentence starting with الصفحة and not صفحة?

الصفحة means the page, so it is definite. In this sentence, the speaker has a specific page in mind: the page that I am reading now.

In Arabic, a noun followed by a relative pronoun like التي is normally definite. So الصفحة التي... is a natural way to say the page that....

If you said صفحة without الـ, it would mean a page, and the structure would usually be different.

Why is the relative pronoun التي used here?

التي means which / that and is the feminine singular relative pronoun.

It matches الصفحة, because:

• صفحة is singular
• صفحة is feminine

So Arabic uses التي to agree with the noun it refers to.

Some matching forms are:

• الذي = masculine singular
• التي = feminine singular
• اللذان / اللتين = dual
• الذين = masculine plural
• اللاتي / اللواتي = feminine plural

Why is صفحة feminine?

Many Arabic nouns are grammatically feminine, and صفحة is one of them. A common sign of feminine nouns is the ـة ending, and has that ending.