صديقتي تغسل يديها قبل كل وجبة، ولا تنسى الصابون.

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Breakdown of صديقتي تغسل يديها قبل كل وجبة، ولا تنسى الصابون.

• و: and
• صديقة: friend
• قبل: before

Questions & Answers about صديقتي تغسل يديها قبل كل وجبة، ولا تنسى الصابون.

What does صديقتي mean exactly, and how is it built?

صديقتي means my female friend.

It is made of:

• صديقة = a female friend
• ـي = my

So:

• صديقة → صديقتي = my female friend

A useful thing to notice: the feminine ending ة changes to ت when a suffix is attached, so صديقة becomes صديقتي.

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Why is the verb تغسل used here?

تغسل is the present/imperfect form of the verb غسل = to wash.

Here it means she washes.

The prefix تـ can mark several forms in Arabic, but in this sentence it is understood as she because the subject is صديقتي, which is feminine singular.

So:

• غسل = he washed / the basic past stem
• تغسل = she washes / is washing

In a sentence like this, the imperfect usually gives a habitual meaning, so it matches English washes well.

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Why is there no separate word for she in the sentence?

Arabic often leaves the subject pronoun unstated because the verb already shows who the subject is.

So already tells you , and tells you .