المهارات مناسبة للوظيفة الشاغرة.

This sentence is very natural in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and also understandable in Egypt, especially in formal contexts like CVs, job ads, or HR language.

In everyday Egyptian Arabic, people might say something more conversational, such as:

• المهارات مناسبة للشغلانة دي
• مهاراتك مناسبة للوظيفة دي

So if you are learning Egyptian Arabic, it is good to know that this sentence sounds formal and professional, not especially casual.

Arabic often does not use a present-tense verb meaning to be in sentences like this.

So:

• المهارات مناسبة للوظيفة الشاغرة literally looks like:
• the skills suitable for-the vacant job

But it naturally means:

• The skills are suitable for the vacant position.

This is normal in both MSA and Egyptian Arabic.
If you wanted the past, then Arabic would use a verb, such as كانت for was/were.

This is a very common learner question.

المهارات is a non-human plural. In Arabic, non-human plurals are usually treated grammatically as feminine singular when adjectives or verbs agree with them.

So:

• المهارات = skills
• adjective used with it = مناسبة and not مناسبات

That is why the sentence uses مناسبة.

Compare:

• المهارات مناسبة = The skills are suitable.

This rule is extremely important in Arabic:

• human plural often takes plural agreement
• non-human plural usually takes feminine singular agreement

مناسبة is an adjective meaning suitable, appropriate, or fitting.

Its basic masculine form is:

• مناسب

The feminine form is:

• مناسبة

It appears in the feminine singular here because it agrees with المهارات as a non-human plural, which takes feminine singular agreement.

Also, مناسب / مناسبة is commonly used with the preposition لـ to mean:

• suitable for
• appropriate for

So:

• مناسبة للوظيفة = suitable for the job

للوظيفة is made from:

• لِـ = for / to
• الوظيفة = the job / the position

When لِـ comes before الـ, they combine in writing:

• لِ + الوظيفة → للوظيفة

So للـ is not one single separate word you need to memorize by itself; it is just the preposition لِـ attached to a definite noun.

Because all the nouns involved are definite:

• المهارات = the skills
• الوظيفة = the job / position
• الشاغرة = the vacant / open one

In Arabic, when a noun is definite and it is described by an adjective, the adjective also becomes definite.

So:

• الوظيفة الشاغرة = the vacant position

Both parts take الـ because الشاغرة is describing الوظيفة.

This is called adjective agreement in definiteness.

الشاغرة means vacant, open, or unfilled.

The base adjective is:

• شاغر = vacant / open

Feminine:

• شاغرة

It is feminine here because it describes الوظيفة, which is a feminine noun.

So:

• وظيفة شاغرة = a vacant position
• الوظيفة الشاغرة = the vacant position

In job-related Arabic, this is a very common formal phrase.

Because it describes الوظيفة, and وظيفة is a feminine noun.

In Arabic, adjectives agree with the noun they describe in:

• gender
• number
• definiteness

So:

• وظيفة is feminine singular
• therefore the adjective is شاغرة and not شاغر

That gives:

• الوظيفة الشاغرة

A natural Egyptian-style pronunciation would be approximately:

• el-mahārāt monāseba lel-wazīfa esh-shāghra

A few helpful notes:

• ال is often pronounced el- in Egyptian.
• مناسبة is commonly pronounced monāseba in Egyptian speech.
• للـ often sounds like lel-.
• الشاغرة may be pronounced closer to esh-shāghra in Egyptian-style pronunciation.

So even though the sentence is formal, the pronunciation can still be read in an Egyptian way.

The structure is:

• المهارات = subject/topic
• مناسبة = predicate adjective
• للوظيفة الشاغرة = prepositional phrase explaining what the skills are suitable for

So the pattern is:

• [noun] + [adjective] + [preposition + noun phrase]

A similar example would be:

• الخبرة ضرورية لهذا العمل
• Experience is necessary for this work

This kind of structure is extremely common in Arabic.

Yes. In everyday Egyptian, people often use more conversational wording.

Possible alternatives:

• الشغلانة دي = this job
• الوظيفة دي = this position/job
• الشغل ده = this work/job

So in colloquial Egyptian, you might hear:

• المهارات مناسبة للشغلانة دي
• المهارات دي مناسبة للوظيفة دي
• مهاراتك مناسبة للشغلانة دي

These sound more spoken and less formal than الوظيفة الشاغرة.

It can do either, depending on context.

• المهارات literally means the skills
• In a job context, it often refers to the skills being discussed, such as the applicant’s skills on a CV or in an interview.

Arabic often uses the definite article where English may or may not use it depending on style. So المهارات here is perfectly natural.

If you wanted to be more specific, you could also say things like:

• مهاراتك = your skills
• هذه المهارات = these skills

Yes—this sentence teaches several very useful Arabic patterns at once:

1. No present-tense to be

   • المهارات مناسبة = The skills are suitable

2. Non-human plural takes feminine singular agreement

   • المهارات مناسبة

3. Adjectives agree with the noun they describe

   • الوظيفة الشاغرة

4. مناسب / مناسبة commonly goes with لـ

   • مناسبة للوظيفة

5. The whole sentence sounds formal, especially suitable for job-related language.

So this is a great example sentence for both grammar and professional vocabulary.