عندي ألم في الأسنان اليوم، ولذلك آخذ الدواء الآن.

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Breakdown of عندي ألم في الأسنان اليوم، ولذلك آخذ الدواء الآن.

• الآن: now
• و: and
• اليوم: today

Questions & Answers about عندي ألم في الأسنان اليوم، ولذلك آخذ الدواء الآن.

How does عندي mean I have?

Arabic often expresses possession with عند + a pronoun suffix.

• عند = at / with / in the possession of
• -ي = me / my

So عندي literally means with me or at me, but in natural English we translate it as I have.

So:

• عندي ألم = I have pain

This is a very common Arabic structure.

Why is there no separate word for am or have in the first part?

Because Arabic does not always use a verb the way English does.

In عندي ألم:

• عندي already gives the idea of I have
• ألم is the thing possessed

So Arabic does not need a separate verb like have here.

This is normal in Arabic, not an omission.

Why is ألم indefinite, not الألم?

After expressions like عندي or لدي, the noun is very often indefinite when you are introducing something that exists or that someone has.

So:

• عندي ألم = I have a pain / pain
• =