بعد الاجتماع أصعد إلى شرفة المكتب وأقرأ الرسالة هناك.

After the meeting, I go up to the office balcony and read the message there.

Breakdown of بعد الاجتماع أصعد إلى شرفة المكتب وأقرأ الرسالة هناك.

• هناك: there
• و: and
• الى: to
• يقرأ: to read

Questions & Answers about بعد الاجتماع أصعد إلى شرفة المكتب وأقرأ الرسالة هناك.

Why does the sentence start with بعد الاجتماع?

بعد الاجتماع means after the meeting and sets the time for the whole sentence.

A useful grammar point here is:

• بعد = after
• الاجتماع = the meeting

In a fully vocalized version, this would normally be:

• بَعْدَ الِاجْتِمَاعِ

Here, بعد is followed by a noun in the genitive, so الاجتماع is understood as of the meeting / the meeting after after.

So the phrase works like a time expression: After the meeting, ...

What tense is أصعد and أقرأ?

Both أصعد and أقرأ are in the imperfect verb form, which is often called the present tense in beginner materials.

• أصعد = I go up / I ascend
• أقرأ = I read

In Arabic, the imperfect can express different things depending on context, such as:

• a present action
• a habitual action
• a narrative present
• sometimes a near future meaning

So this sentence could mean something like:

• After the meeting, I go up to the office balcony and read the letter there
• or After the meeting, I usually go up..., depending on context