Breakdown of يحجز موعدا؛ تقيس الممرضة ضغط الدم، ثم تقيس درجة الحرارة.
Questions & Answers about يحجز موعدا؛ تقيس الممرضة ضغط الدم، ثم تقيس درجة الحرارة.
A fully vocalized version is:
يَحْجُزُ مَوْعِدًا؛ تَقِيسُ الْمُمَرِّضَةُ ضَغْطَ الدَّمِ، ثُمَّ تَقِيسُ دَرَجَةَ الْحَرَارَةِ.
In normal Arabic writing, these short vowels and case endings are usually omitted, so you often see it written exactly as:
يحجز موعدا؛ تقيس الممرضة ضغط الدم، ثم تقيس درجة الحرارة.
يحجز is a 3rd-person singular masculine imperfect verb, so by itself it most literally means he books / he is booking.
Arabic often leaves the subject implied inside the verb. So the sentence does not explicitly say he, but the verb form tells you that the subject is masculine singular.
In context, this could refer to:
- a man / male patient
- someone in a general example
- a person already known from earlier context
If the subject were a woman, you would expect تحجز instead.
Because موعدًا is the direct object of يحجز.
- يحجز = books
- موعدًا = an appointment
In MSA, direct objects are normally in the accusative case, and an indefinite singular noun in the accusative usually takes tanwīn fatḥ:
- موعدٌ = an appointment (nominative)