فيه ثوم وبصل في الصلصة، عشان كده ريحتها حلوة.

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Breakdown of فيه ثوم وبصل في الصلصة، عشان كده ريحتها حلوة.

• حلو: good
• في: in
• و: and

Questions & Answers about فيه ثوم وبصل في الصلصة، عشان كده ريحتها حلوة.

What does فيه mean here?

Here فيه is the very common Egyptian Arabic way to say there is / there are.

So:

• فيه ثوم وبصل = There is garlic and onion
• even though English uses there are with plural things, Egyptian Arabic often still uses فيه as a fixed existential expression.

A good way to think of it is:

• فيه = there exists / there’s

In fast speech, learners may hear it as fīh or sometimes almost just fī.

Why is there another في in في الصلصة if the sentence already has فيه?

Because the two في forms are doing different jobs:

• فيه = there is / there are
• في الصلصة = in the sauce

So the structure is literally:

• فيه ثوم وبصل في الصلصة
• There is garlic and onion in the sauce

This is very normal in Egyptian Arabic.

Since الصلصة is feminine, why isn’t it فيها ثوم وبصل?