السكينة والشوكة على الترابيزة.

A natural pronunciation is:

es-sikkeena wish-shooka ʿala t-tarabeeza

A slower word-by-word breakdown:

• السكينة → es-sikkeena = the knife
• والشوكة → wish-shooka = and the fork
• على → ʿala = on
• الترابيزة → it-/et-tarabeeza = the table

In fast everyday speech, the و in والشوكة is usually pronounced wi- before the next word, so it sounds like wish-shooka.

Because in Egyptian Arabic, as in Arabic generally, the verb to be is usually left out in the present tense.

So:

• السكينة والشوكة على الترابيزة
  literally: the knife and the fork on the table

But it means:

• The knife and the fork are on the table.

If you want past or future, then forms of to be do appear. But in the present, they are normally omitted.

الـ is the Arabic definite article, meaning the.

So:

• سكينة = a knife / knife

• السكينة = the knife

• شوكة = a fork / fork

• الشوكة = the fork

• ترابيزة = a table / table
• الترابيزة = the table

In this sentence, all three nouns are definite, so each one gets الـ.

In Arabic, و meaning and is written as a prefix, attached directly to the following word.

So:

• و + الشوكة → والشوكة

This is completely normal in Arabic writing. It is not a separate written word the way and is in English.

This is because of sun letters.

The ل in الـ changes in pronunciation before certain consonants. In this sentence:

• السكينة starts with س, so ال is pronounced es-
• الشوكة starts with ش, so ال is pronounced ish-/esh-
• الترابيزة starts with ت, so ال is pronounced it-/et-

So although the spelling still uses الـ, the pronunciation changes.

That is why you hear:

• es-sikkeena
• ish-shooka
• it-/et-tarabeeza

Yes. على means on and is the normal everyday word for physical location on top of something.

So:

• على الترابيزة = on the table

This is exactly what you would expect in Egyptian Arabic.

Yes. The Arabic sentence is fully definite:

• السكينة = the knife
• الشوكة = the fork

In natural English, you might translate it as either:

• The knife and the fork are on the table.
• The knife and fork are on the table.

Both are fine in English. Arabic simply marks both nouns as definite.

This is because Arabic often uses a nominal sentence in the present tense.

Structure here:

• السكينة والشوكة = the knife and the fork
• على الترابيزة = on the table

So the sentence is basically:

• [subject] + [location]

The idea of are is understood automatically. This is a very common Arabic pattern.

Yes, both are grammatically feminine.

You can tell because they end in ـة:

• سكينة
• شوكة

In Arabic, grammatical gender does not always match natural gender. Objects can be masculine or feminine just as part of the language.

So even though a knife or fork is not biologically female, the nouns themselves are grammatically feminine.

ترابيزة is a very common Egyptian Arabic word meaning table.

It is not the usual Modern Standard Arabic word. In MSA, you would more often see:

• طاولة or مائدة depending on context

But in Egyptian everyday speech, ترابيزة is extremely common and natural.

Sometimes yes, but they are not exactly the same.

• على الترابيزة = on the table
• فوق الترابيزة = on top of / above the table

In many everyday situations, Egyptians may use both, but على is the most neutral and basic choice for on.
So for a beginner, على الترابيزة is the safest and most standard way to say it.

You would normally remove the definite article from the first two nouns:

• سكينة وشوكة على الترابيزة

That gives the sense of:

• A knife and a fork are on the table

Arabic does not have a separate word for a/an, so the absence of الـ often gives an indefinite meaning.

Good question. In Egyptian Arabic, سكينة commonly means knife.

But in Modern Standard Arabic, سكينة can also mean calmness / tranquility in a completely different context.

So meaning depends on dialect and context.
Here, because it is paired with الشوكة and followed by على الترابيزة, the meaning is clearly knife.

A useful approximate guide is:

• sik-KEE-na
• SHOO-ka
• tara-BEE-za

So the sentence sounds roughly like:

es-sik-KEE-na wish-SHOO-ka ʿala t-tara-BEE-za

Listening and repeating is especially important here, because Egyptian Arabic rhythm is hard to learn from spelling alone.

Usually, in pause or citation form, ـة is pronounced like -a in Egyptian Arabic:

• سكينة → sikkeena
• شوكة → shooka
• ترابيزة → tarabeeza

You do not normally pronounce it as a strong t here.

A t sound may appear in certain grammatical combinations in more formal Arabic, but in this sentence in everyday Egyptian speech, you will hear the final sound as -a.