الجميع يعرف هذا المكان.

Because الجميع is treated as a singular noun in Arabic.

• الجميع literally means all / everyone
• Grammatically, it behaves like a singular masculine noun
• So the verb is also singular masculine: يعرف

That is why you say:

• الجميع يعرف = Everyone knows

Not:

• الجميع يعرفون in standard usage for this sentence

This is different from English, where everyone feels semantically plural but usually takes singular agreement too: Everyone knows.

In this sentence, الجميع is best understood as a noun meaning everyone or everybody.

It comes from the root idea of all or the whole group. In Modern Standard Arabic, it is very commonly used as the subject of a sentence:

• الجميع يعرف = Everyone knows
• الجميع حضر = Everyone attended

So even though it translates like an English pronoun, in Arabic it behaves like a regular singular noun for agreement purposes.

The prefix الـ is the Arabic definite article, equivalent to the.

In this sentence:

• الجميع = everyone / all the people
• المكان = the place

A few useful points:

1. الجميع is normally used with الـ

   • You usually say الجميع for everyone

2. المكان has الـ because the phrase هذا المكان means this place

   • In Arabic, when a noun comes after هذا, the noun is usually definite
   • So هذا المكان literally works like this the-place, but naturally it means this place

In Modern Standard Arabic, when you say this + noun, the noun is usually definite.

So Arabic says:

• هذا المكان = this place
• هذه المدينة = this city

Not normally:

• هذا مكان for this place

That is because هذا does not work exactly like English this. In Arabic, the demonstrative and the noun together usually form a definite phrase, so the noun takes الـ.

Yes. هذا is the masculine singular demonstrative meaning this, and it must match the noun it refers to.

• مكان is a masculine singular noun
• So the correct demonstrative is هذا

That gives:

• هذا المكان = this place

If the noun were feminine, you would use هذه instead:

• هذه المدينة = this city

So the matching here is:

• masculine singular noun → هذا

The sentence is:

• الجميع = subject
• يعرف = verb
• هذا المكان = object

So the structure is:

Subject + Verb + Object

Arabic often allows more than one word order, but this sentence uses a very common and natural one:

• الجميع يعرف هذا المكان

You could also see verb-first structures in Arabic, but with الجميع, this subject-first order is very straightforward and common.

Yes. That is also grammatical in Modern Standard Arabic.

• الجميع يعرف هذا المكان
• يعرف الجميع هذا المكان

Both mean Everyone knows this place.

The difference is mainly one of style or emphasis:

• الجميع يعرف هذا المكان starts with the subject, so it highlights everyone
• يعرف الجميع هذا المكان starts with the verb, which is also a very normal Arabic pattern

For a learner, the original sentence is often easier to analyze because the subject comes first.

يعرف comes from the root ع ر ف which is connected with knowing, recognizing, or being familiar with.

The dictionary form of the verb is:

• عَرَفَ = to know / to recognize

The form يعرف means:

• he knows
• or, in context, knows when the subject is something like الجميع

So in this sentence:

• الجميع يعرف هذا المكان
• literally: Everyone knows this place

Arabic often uses the same verb for both know and be familiar with, depending on context.

Because Arabic does not use a helper verb like English do/does in ordinary present-tense statements.

English says:

• Everyone knows this place

Arabic simply says:

• الجميع يعرف هذا المكان

There is no separate word for does because the verb form itself already expresses the present meaning.

The same is true in many Arabic sentences:

• هو يقرأ = He reads / He is reading
• هي تفهم = She understands

So يعرف already contains the verbal meaning; no extra helping verb is needed.

A careful pronunciation would be approximately:

al-jamīʿu yaʿrifu hādhā al-makāna

In normal reading without full case endings, learners often say something like:

al-jamīʿ yaʿrif hādhā al-makān

A few pronunciation notes:

• جميع has a long ī sound: jamīʿ
• ع in يعرف and جميع is a consonant that does not exist in English; learners usually need practice with it
• هذا is pronounced hādhā
• مكان has a long ā in the second syllable: makān

Yes, in fully vowelled formal Arabic there are case endings, although they are often not pronounced in everyday reading or speech.

Fully marked, the sentence would be:

• الجميعُ يعرفُ هذا المكانَ

Here is why:

• الجميعُ gets -u because it is the subject
• يعرفُ gets -u because it is in the indicative present
• المكانَ gets -a because it is the direct object
• هذا is a fixed demonstrative form and does not show the normal case ending in the same way a regular noun does

In most practical learner contexts, you will often see and hear:

• الجميع يعرف هذا المكان

without the final short vowels.

Yes. That is a very natural thing to notice.

In English, know this place can sometimes sound a bit unusual unless it means be familiar with this place. In Arabic, يعرف هذا المكان naturally covers the idea of:

• knows this place
• recognizes this place
• is familiar with this place

So depending on context, the sentence could suggest that everyone:

• knows about the place
• recognizes it
• is familiar with it

Arabic عرف / يعرف often has this broader range.