الغدا النهارده فيه لحمة وسلطة.

In this sentence, فيه is functioning like there is / there are.

So الغدا النهارده فيه لحمة وسلطة means something like:

• For lunch today, there is meat and salad
• or more naturally, Lunch today has meat and salad

Literally, فيه comes from في + ـه and can also mean in it, depending on context. But in everyday Egyptian Arabic, فيه is very commonly used as an existential word meaning there is / there are.

So here, don’t over-translate it as in it. Just understand it as there is/are.

Because in Arabic, especially in the present tense, you usually do not need a separate verb for is/am/are.

English says:

• Lunch today is meat and salad
• There is meat and salad

Egyptian Arabic often just uses structure and context instead of a present-tense to be verb.

Here, the sentence uses فيه to express existence, so there is no need for a separate is.

This is very normal in Arabic.

This puts the topic first: lunch today.

A good way to think about the structure is:

• الغدا النهارده = as for lunch today
• فيه لحمة وسلطة = there is meat and salad

So the sentence is organized like:

• Topic: lunch today
• Comment: it has / there is meat and salad

This topic-first style is very common in Arabic.

You could also hear other word orders in speech, but this one is very natural.

Because الغدا and النهارده refer to specific things:

• الغدا = the lunch / lunch
• النهارده = today

But لحمة and سلطة are being mentioned as kinds of food on the menu, not as specifically identified items.

So:

• فيه لحمة وسلطة = there is meat and salad

This is similar to English, where we often say there’s meat and salad, not necessarily the meat and the salad.

If you said اللحمة والسلطة, it would sound more like you mean specific known dishes: the meat and the salad.

Yes. الغدا in Egyptian Arabic corresponds to MSA الغداء, meaning lunch.

In Egyptian Arabic:

• MSA الغداء
• Egyptian الغدا

The final hamza that appears in MSA spelling is often not written or pronounced the same way in everyday Egyptian.

So for learners, it’s best to just recognize الغدا as the normal Egyptian form for lunch.

Because النهارده is the common everyday Egyptian Arabic word for today.

• النهارده = everyday Egyptian Arabic
• اليوم = more formal / MSA-like

A native speaker in casual conversation is much more likely to say النهارده.

So this sentence is clearly colloquial Egyptian, not Modern Standard Arabic.

In Egyptian Arabic, لحمة is the normal everyday word for meat, especially as food.

In MSA, you often learn لحم.

So:

• لحم = dictionary/MSA form
• لحمة = very common Egyptian colloquial form

If you are learning Egyptian specifically, لحمة is the form you will hear a lot in daily speech.

Arabic does not use a separate word for a/an the way English does.

So لحمة can mean:

• meat
• some meat
• a meat dish, depending on context

And سلطة can mean:

• salad
• a salad

In this sentence, the meaning is naturally understood from context as menu-type food items, so no extra article is needed.

In everyday Egyptian Arabic, فيه is commonly used for both there is and there are in many situations.

So even though there are two items, لحمة وسلطة, using فيه is completely normal.

Learners often expect a strict singular/plural distinction like in English, but spoken Arabic is often less strict about that in this structure.

A simple learner-friendly pronunciation would be:

el-ghada en-naharda feeh lahma w सलata

A more standard Latin transliteration could be:

il-ghada ennaharda fīh laḥma w salaṭa

A few notes:

• الـ is often pronounced il or el in Egyptian
• النهارده sounds roughly like en-naharda
• و is usually just w = and
• فيه is pronounced like feeh

You do not need to pronounce it in a very formal MSA way. A natural Egyptian rhythm is more important.

Because when الـ comes before certain consonants, the l sound assimilates to the next consonant.

In النهارده, the next letter is ن, which is one of the so-called sun letters. So instead of pronouncing the l clearly, speakers double the n sound:

• written: النهارده
• pronounced: en-naharda or il-nnaharda

That is why you hear ennaharda, not el-naharda.

Yes, that is a reasonable natural translation.

Depending on how you want to phrase it in English, you could translate it as:

• Today’s lunch is meat and salad
• For lunch today, there is meat and salad
• Lunch today has meat and salad

All of these capture the idea well.

The exact English wording can vary, but the Arabic sentence is basically telling you what is available for lunch today.

Yes, very strongly.

الغدا النهارده فيه لحمة وسلطة sounds very natural in contexts like:

• a home meal announcement
• a school or work cafeteria
• a menu for the day
• someone telling you what is being served

It does not just describe random food in an abstract way. It usually implies what’s on offer for lunch today.