البيت قريب من الجبل.

A simple Egyptian pronunciation is:

el-bēt ʔarīb men el-gabal

You may also see it written as il-bēt 'arīb men il-gabal in transliteration. The main parts are:

• البيت → el-bēt = the house
• قريب → ʔarīb / 'arīb = near
• من → men = from / near to
• الجبل → el-gabal = the mountain

A few pronunciation notes:

• In Egyptian Arabic, ج is usually pronounced like g in go, so الجبل sounds like el-gabal, not el-jabal.
• In many Egyptian accents, ق is pronounced as a glottal stop, which is why قريب sounds like ʔarīb or 'arīb.

Because Arabic usually leaves out is/am/are in the present tense.

So:

• البيت قريب من الجبل literally looks like the house near from the mountain
• but it naturally means the house is near the mountain

This is completely normal in Arabic.

If you wanted was, you would add a verb such as كان:

• البيت كان قريب من الجبل = The house was near the mountain

In everyday Egyptian, dropping the present-tense is is standard.

ال is the Arabic definite article, meaning the.

So:

• البيت = the house
• الجبل = the mountain

In Egyptian Arabic, ال is usually pronounced el- (or sometimes written il- in transliteration), so learners often read these as:

• el-bēt
• el-gabal

Because قريب normally takes من when you want to say something is near another thing.

So:

• قريب من الجبل = near the mountain

Word-for-word, من often means from, but after قريب, the whole expression means near or close to.

This is one of those combinations you should learn as a chunk:

• قريب من = near / close to

It is an adjective, meaning near or close.

In this sentence, though, it is not directly describing a noun inside a noun phrase. It is acting as the predicate of the sentence:

• البيت = the topic/subject
• قريب من الجبل = what is being said about it

So البيت قريب من الجبل means The house is near the mountain.

Compare that with:

• البيت القريب = the nearby house

There, القريب directly modifies البيت.

Because here قريب is the predicate, not part of the noun phrase the near house.

Arabic often does this pattern:

• definite noun + indefinite predicate

So:

• البيت قريب = the house is near

But if you say:

• البيت القريب

that means:

• the nearby house

So the presence or absence of ال changes the structure:

• البيت قريب = a full sentence
• البيت القريب = a noun phrase

Because البيت is grammatically masculine, and adjectives agree with the noun they refer to.

So:

• البيت قريب = The house is near
• العربية قريبة = The car is near
  because العربية is feminine

This agreement is very important in Arabic. The adjective usually matches the noun in gender and number.

Because in Egyptian Arabic, the letter ج is usually pronounced like g in go.

So:

• جبل → gabal

This is one of the most noticeable differences between Egyptian Arabic and Standard Arabic pronunciation.

For a learner, it is useful to remember:

• Standard Arabic: jabal
• Egyptian Arabic: gabal

The written form البيت قريب من الجبل can work for both, but the pronunciation changes.

A more Standard Arabic reading would be something like:

• al-baytu qarībun min al-jabali

An Egyptian reading would be more like:

• el-bēt ʔarīb men el-gabal

So the spelling can look the same, but Egyptian Arabic:

• changes some sounds
• drops case endings
• uses everyday pronunciation

That is very common with short simple sentences like this.

They mean different things grammatically:

• البيت قريب من الجبل = The house is near the mountain
• البيت القريب من الجبل = The house that is near the mountain / the house near the mountain

The first is a complete sentence.

The second is a noun phrase, where القريب من الجبل describes البيت.

This is a very important distinction in Arabic:

• no ال on قريب → usually a predicate in a sentence
• ال on القريب → usually an adjective modifying the noun

You would usually say:

البيت مش قريب من الجبل

Pronounced:

el-bēt mesh ʔarīb men el-gabal

Here:

• مش = not

So the pattern is very simple:

• البيت قريب من الجبل = The house is near the mountain
• البيت مش قريب من الجبل = The house is not near the mountain

This is the normal everyday Egyptian way to negate a sentence like this.