المادة الفعالة في نشرة الدوا.

Not really. It is usually a noun phrase or a heading/label, not a complete sentence with a verb.

You might see it as a section title on a website, medicine box, or pharmacy page, where English would also often use a fragment such as Active ingredient in the leaflet rather than a full sentence.

If you wanted to turn it into a full sentence, you could say something like:

المادة الفعالة موجودة في نشرة الدوا
= The active ingredient is listed in the medicine leaflet

A natural Egyptian-style pronunciation would be:

el-madda el-faʿʿāla fi nashrit ed-dawa

A few notes:

• المادة → el-madda
• الفعالة → el-faʿʿāla
• في → fi
• نشرة الدوا → nashrit ed-dawa

You may also see slightly different transliterations, since Arabic sounds do not map perfectly to English letters.

It is mixed, which is very normal in Egypt.

• المادة الفعالة sounds quite close to Modern Standard Arabic
• الدوا is clearly Egyptian colloquial for medicine

A fully Standard Arabic version would more likely be:

المادة الفعالة في نشرة الدواء

In everyday Egyptian speech and informal writing, mixing these levels is very common.

Word by word:

• المادة = the substance / the material
• الفعالة = the active / effective (feminine adjective)

Together, المادة الفعالة means the active ingredient.

So Arabic is expressing it as something like the active substance.

Because الفعالة is an adjective describing المادة, and in Arabic adjectives must match the noun in things like:

• definiteness
• gender
• number

Here:

• المادة is definite: the substance
• so the adjective must also be definite: الفعالة

That is why you get:

• مادة فعالة = an active substance
• المادة الفعالة = the active substance / the active ingredient

Because it describes المادة, and مادة is a feminine noun in Arabic.

So the adjective must be feminine too:

• masculine: فعّال
• feminine: فعّالة

This kind of agreement is very important in Arabic.

في is the preposition in.

So:

• في نشرة الدوا = in the medicine leaflet

It connects the first part, المادة الفعالة, to the place where that information appears.

نشرة الدوا means the medicine leaflet or the leaflet of the medicine.

Arabic usually does not use a separate word for of in this kind of structure. Instead, it uses something called an iḍāfa or construct phrase:

• نشرة = leaflet
• الدوا = the medicine

So literally:

• نشرة الدوا = leaflet the-medicine

In natural English, that becomes the medicine leaflet or the medicine’s leaflet.

This is very common in Arabic:

• باب البيت = the door of the house
• اسم الدكتور = the doctor’s name

That is a key rule of the iḍāfa structure.

In نشرة الدوا:

• the first noun is نشرة
• the second noun is الدوا

In this structure, the first noun usually does not take الـ.
The whole phrase becomes definite because the second noun is definite.

So:

• نشرة دوا = a medicine leaflet
• نشرة الدوا = the medicine leaflet

This can feel strange to English speakers at first, but it is completely normal Arabic grammar.

الدوا is the usual Egyptian Arabic form.
الدواء is the Modern Standard Arabic form.

So:

• دواء = Standard Arabic
• دوا = Egyptian colloquial

The meaning is the same: medicine.

In Egyptian speech, the hamza in دواء is typically dropped, giving دوا.

Because when a word ending in ة is followed by another word in an iḍāfa structure, that ending often reappears as a t sound.

So:

• by itself: نشرة → nashra
• in نشرة الدوا: nashrit ed-dawa

This is very common with words ending in ة.

It is similar to how, in more formal Arabic, the taa marbuuTa becomes a pronounced t when the word is connected grammatically.

Because د is a sun letter.

The Arabic definite article is written الـ, but with sun letters the l sound assimilates to the next consonant.

So:

• written: الدوا
• pronounced: ed-dawa

Other examples:

• الشمس → esh-shams
• الراجل → er-ragel
• الدكتور → ed-doktoor

So this is a pronunciation rule, not a spelling change.