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وفي حين #اتفق علماء اليوم على توسع الكون (من خلال نظرية الانفجار الكبير) #اختلفوا بخصوص مستقبل هذا التوسع.

Although contemporary scientists that the universe is expanding (within the framework of the big bang theory), they on the future of this expansion.


Inchoative perfective verbs are verbs that describe entering a state rather than being in a state.

For example, the verb “اتفق، agree” describes an instantaneous event of coming to an agreement, which is necessarily followed by a state of being in agreement.

English focuses on this resultant state and uses the or the to profile it, whereas Arabic focuses on the completeness of the event that brings this state about and uses the .

In Arabic, it’s not clear from the verb “اتفق" whether or not these scientists are still in agreement on the expansion of the universe at the time this sentence was written.

Fortunately, the usually provides clues that help us identify the intended interpretations of . The subject phrase “علماء اليوم, today’s scientists” suggests that the state of agreeing holds true at speech time, thus supporting the .

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