الْمُعَلِّمُ حَاضِرٌ — The teacher is present.
الْمُعَلِّمُ: nominative mubtadaʾ; definite through ال.
حَاضِرٌ: nominative khabar; indefinite.
Indefiniteness is not a judgment of importance: the predicate conveys the sentence’s new information.
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Parsing an Al-Definite Topic
Mubtadaʾ and Khabar — Definition and Foundational Rules
الْمُعَلِّمُ حَاضِرٌ — The teacher is present.
الْمُعَلِّمُ: nominative mubtadaʾ; definite through ال.
حَاضِرٌ: nominative khabar; indefinite.
Indefiniteness is not a judgment of importance: the predicate conveys the sentence’s new information.