هي تملأ الاستمارة.

She is filling in the form.

Breakdown of هي تملأ الاستمارة.

• هي: she
• يملأ الاستمارة: to fill in the form

Questions & Answers about هي تملأ الاستمارة.

What does هي mean here, and do I have to include it?

هي means she.

In this sentence, it identifies the subject clearly: هي تملأ الاستمارة = She fills out the form.

But in Arabic, you often do not need to say the subject pronoun, because the verb already contains subject information. So:

• تملأ الاستمارة can already mean She fills out the form
• adding هي makes the subject more explicit, and sometimes more emphatic

So both are possible, but هي is not always required.

Why is the verb تملأ used for she?

In the present tense, Arabic verbs change form depending on the subject.

For she with a singular verb, Arabic commonly uses a verb beginning with تـ.

So:

• هي تملأ = she fills
• the تـ at the beginning is part of the present-tense conjugation pattern

This is very common in Arabic. For example:

• هي تكتب = she writes
• هي تقرأ = she reads
• هي تملأ = she fills

Can تملأ mean anything else besides she fills?

Yes. By itself, تملأ can also mean when speaking to .