صديقتنا تنتظر ضيفة اليوم، ولذلك تريد أن ترتب البيت مبكرا.

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Breakdown of صديقتنا تنتظر ضيفة اليوم، ولذلك تريد أن ترتب البيت مبكرا.

• اليوم: today
• البيت: house
• صديقة: friend

Questions & Answers about صديقتنا تنتظر ضيفة اليوم، ولذلك تريد أن ترتب البيت مبكرا.

Why are the verbs تنتظر and تريد in the feminine form?

Because the subject is صديقتنا = our female friend, which is feminine singular.

In Modern Standard Arabic, verbs agree with their subject in gender. So with a feminine singular subject, you get feminine singular verbs:

• تنتظر = she waits / she is waiting
• تريد = she wants

If the subject were masculine, you would have:

• صديقنا ينتظر...
• ...ولذلك يريد...

So the تـ at the beginning here marks she in these present-tense verbs.

What exactly does صديقتنا mean, and why is there a ت before نا?

صديقتنا means our female friend.

It breaks down like this:

• صديقة = female friend
• نا = our

When a word ending in ة (taa marbuuTa) is followed by a suffix like نا, the ة is pronounced and written as ت in the connected form:

• صديقة → صديقتنا

This is very common:

• سيارة = car
• سيارتنا = our car

So the ت is not a different word; it is the same feminine ending showing up before the possessive suffix.