Translation between English and Arabic by Noureldin Abdelaal

Author:Noureldin Abdelaal
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030343323
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

3.1 Arabic Tense as a Problem in Translation

Tense is one of the prominent grammatical problems in translation. It is difficult for a translator to preserve the tense of the ST, and thus the meaning may be susceptible. Lack of tense equivalence between Arabic and English poses many problems in translation. Arabic has only three tenses: past, present (aorist) and future. These tenses are unpacked below:

a. The past

The following example highlights the problem of translating the past tense from Arabic to English.

Example

ذهب أحمد الى المدرسة

The verb ذهب, which is in the past tense, can be rendered into different aspects in English based on the context. It can be rendered as:

I.‘Ahmed went to school.’

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