الجارة الجديدة ساكنة في الشقة اللي قدامنا، والبواب عارفها كويس.

Yes. الجارة means the female neighbor. The masculine form is الجار.

That feminine -ة ending often shows up on nouns, adjectives, and participles when the word is feminine. That is why you also get:

• الجديدة = new (feminine)
• ساكنة = living / residing (feminine)

So the sentence is specifically talking about a woman.

Because in Arabic, adjectives come after the noun and must agree with it in:

• definiteness
• gender
• number

So:

• جارة جديدة = a new neighbor
• الجارة الجديدة = the new neighbor

If the noun is definite, the adjective also has to be definite. That is why both words take الـ.

In Arabic, especially in the present tense, you usually do not say a word for is / are / am.

So:

• الجارة الجديدة ساكنة... literally looks like the new neighbor living...
• but naturally means The new neighbor is living... / lives...

This is completely normal. Present-tense to be is usually omitted.

In Egyptian Arabic, ساكن / ساكنة is very commonly used to mean living / residing. It is an active participle, but in everyday speech it often works like a present-tense description:

• أنا ساكن في الجيزة = I live in Giza
• هي ساكنة هنا = She lives here

So ساكنة does not just mean residing in a formal sense; in Egyptian it is a very natural way to say someone lives somewhere.

You could also hear forms based on the verb سكن, but ساكن/ساكنة is extremely common in speech.

Because it describes الجارة, which is feminine singular.

In Arabic, adjectives and participles must agree with the noun they describe. So:

• masculine: الجار الجديد ساكن...
• feminine: الجارة الجديدة ساكنة...

The feminine ending here is part of normal agreement.

اللي is the Egyptian Arabic relative word meaning that / which / who.

In this sentence:

• الشقة اللي قدامنا
• = the apartment that is in front of us / opposite us

A very important point: in Egyptian Arabic, اللي is used for almost everything:

• people
• things
• singular
• plural
• masculine
• feminine

That makes it much simpler than some other relative pronoun systems.

قدام means in front of or opposite, and -نا means us / our.

So:

• قدامنا = in front of us / opposite us

In context, الشقة اللي قدامنا means the apartment opposite ours or the apartment facing us.

The exact English wording depends on the situation:

• in the same building, it might mean the apartment across the hall
• more generally, it can mean an apartment facing theirs

These are attached pronouns, often called suffix pronouns.

Here they do two different jobs:

• قدامنا

  • قدام = in front of
  • -نا = us
  • together: in front of us

• عارفها

  • عارف = knowing / familiar with
  • -ها = her
  • together: knows her / is familiar with her

So Arabic often attaches pronouns directly to prepositions, nouns, participles, and verbs instead of using separate words like us or her.

البواب means the doorman, but in Egypt it often refers to the building caretaker/porter as well.

This is a very culturally common word in Egyptian Arabic, since many apartment buildings have a بواب who:

• watches the entrance
• knows the residents
• receives deliveries
• helps with building-related tasks

So depending on context, doorman, porter, or building caretaker can all be reasonable translations.

In Egyptian Arabic, عارف is very often used to mean knows or is familiar with.

So:

• يعرفها = he knows her
• عارفها = also he knows her / he’s familiar with her

The form عارف is an active participle, but in everyday Egyptian it commonly expresses a present state. It often sounds very natural for knowledge, familiarity, and ongoing states.

So والبواب عارفها كويس is a very normal Egyptian way to say and the doorman knows her well.

كويس means good / well / fine, depending on context.

In this sentence, عارفها كويس means knows her well.

Putting it at the end is natural in Egyptian Arabic. It is describing how well he knows her.

A few common examples:

• أنا كويس = I’m fine
• العربيّة كويسة = the car is good
• بعرفه كويس / عارفه كويس = I know him well

So كويس can behave like an adjective or an adverb depending on the sentence.

It is clearly Egyptian Arabic.

Clues include:

• اللي for that / who / which
• قدامنا in this everyday colloquial sense
• كويس
• the very natural colloquial use of ساكنة
• the use of عارفها in this spoken style

A more Modern Standard Arabic version would usually look different in several places.

Yes. It is:

• و = and
• البواب = the doorman

So والبواب simply means and the doorman.

In writing, they are joined together because Arabic attaches the conjunction و directly to the following word. That is completely normal:

• والجار = and the neighbor
• والبنت = and the girl
• والبواب = and the doorman

Yes. Literally, that is exactly what it says.

But in natural English, when talking about homes, you often translate it more idiomatically as:

• the apartment opposite ours
• the apartment across from us
• the apartment facing us

So the literal image is in front of us, but the natural meaning in context is usually the apartment across/opposite.