الفاتورة على هذه الورقة، لكنها تحتاج إلى توقيع أمي.

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Breakdown of الفاتورة على هذه الورقة، لكنها تحتاج إلى توقيع أمي.

• ي: my
• يحتاج: to need
• الى: to

Questions & Answers about الفاتورة على هذه الورقة، لكنها تحتاج إلى توقيع أمي.

Where is the word is in الفاتورة على هذه الورقة?

In Arabic, the present-tense to be is usually not written or spoken in simple sentences like this.

So:

الفاتورة على هذه الورقة
literally looks like
the invoice on this paper

but it means
The invoice is on this paper.

This is a very common Arabic pattern called a nominal sentence.

Why is الفاتورة treated as feminine?

Because فاتورة ends in ـة (the tāʾ marbūṭa), which usually marks a feminine noun.

So even though an invoice is not biologically female, it is grammatically feminine in Arabic. That is why later in the sentence Arabic uses feminine agreement:

• لكنها = but it / literally but she/it
• تحتاج = it needs in the feminine singular form

Why is it هذه الورقة and not هذا الورقة?

Because ورقة is a feminine singular noun, so it takes the feminine singular demonstrative هذه.

• هذا = this (masculine)
• هذه = this (feminine)

So:

• هذا الكتاب = this book
• = this paper