هي تختار البرنامج.

هي is the independent pronoun she.

Arabic often does not need an independent subject pronoun, because the verb already shows person, number, and gender. Here, هي is used to make the subject explicit, and it can also add a bit of emphasis or clarity.

Yes. You can say:

• تختار البرنامج

This can mean she chooses the program if the context makes the subject clear.

However, تختار by itself can also mean you choose when speaking to one masculine person, so هي helps remove that ambiguity.

In the Arabic non-past tense, verbs take prefixes that show the subject.

Here, تـ marks third person feminine singular, so تختار means she chooses.

Compare:

• أختار = I choose
• تختار = you choose (masc. sg.) / she chooses
• يختار = he chooses
• نختار = we choose

Because they come from two different things:

• the first ت is the present-tense prefix
• the second ت is part of the verb’s own pattern

The dictionary form is اختار. When you make the present tense, you add the subject prefix, giving تختار.

So the word is not accidental repetition; both t sounds have a reason.

Yes. By itself, تختار can mean either:

• she chooses
• you choose (addressing one masculine person)

Arabic often relies on context, or it uses an explicit pronoun to make the meaning clear:

• هي تختار = she chooses
• أنتَ تختار = you choose

It can mean either, depending on context.

The Arabic non-past tense often covers several English ideas, such as:

• she chooses
• she is choosing
• she does choose

Sometimes it can even refer to the future if the context indicates that.

So Arabic is less rigid here than English.

Arabic allows more than one word order.

This sentence starts with the subject pronoun:

• هي تختار البرنامج

A very common alternative is to leave out the pronoun and simply say:

• تختار البرنامج

Starting with هي can make the subject more explicit, and sometimes slightly more emphatic or contrastive, as in she chooses the program.

So this order is normal and understandable, even though verb-first structures are also very common in MSA.

الـ is the definite article, meaning the.

So:

• برنامج = a program / program
• البرنامج = the program

This is attached directly to the noun.

It is pronounced al-barnāmaj.

The ل in الـ is pronounced normally here because ب is a moon letter, not a sun letter.

So you say:

• al-barnāmaj

not a doubled b sound.

A simple learner-friendly pronunciation is:

• hiya takhtār al-barnāmaj

Helpful notes:

• هي = hiya
• خ in تختار is like the sound in German Bach or Scottish loch
• the ā is a long vowel in takhtār and barnāmaj
• stress is roughly: hiya takh-TAAR al-bar-NAA-maj

The dictionary form is اختار.

That is the past-tense / citation form you would usually look up in a dictionary. It means to choose.

From it, you get forms like:

• اختار = he chose
• يختار = he chooses
• تختار = she chooses / you choose (masc. sg.)

Usually, beginners do not need to worry too much about them in normal speech.

In very formal, fully inflected MSA, words may have final short vowels showing grammatical case and mood. But in pause, and in much spoken usage, these endings are often not pronounced clearly.

So a learner will very commonly say:

• hiya takhtār al-barnāmaj

That is perfectly normal as a practical pronunciation.

It is normally masculine.

So if you refer back to the program with a pronoun, you would usually use هو.

In this sentence, هي does not refer to البرنامج. It refers to the female person who is doing the choosing.