الستارة اللي في الصالة كبيرة، وهي جنب الكنبة.

اللي is the Egyptian Arabic relative word meaning that, which, or who depending on context.

So:

• الستارة اللي في الصالة = the curtain that is in the living room

A very important point for learners: in Egyptian Arabic, اللي does not change for gender or number. It stays اللي whether the noun is masculine, feminine, singular, or plural.

Examples:

• الراجل اللي هناك = the man who is there
• البنت اللي هناك = the girl who is there
• الكتب اللي على الترابيزة = the books that are on the table

Because الستارة is a feminine singular noun, and the adjective has to agree with it.

• الستارة = the curtain
• كبيرة = big, feminine singular
• كبير = big, masculine singular

So:

• الستارة كبيرة = the curtain is big
• الكتاب كبير = the book is big

In Arabic, adjectives normally agree with the noun in gender and number.

In Arabic, the verb to be is usually not stated in the present tense in sentences like this.

So English:

• The curtain is big

Egyptian Arabic:

• الستارة كبيرة

Likewise:

• الكنبة جنب الشباك = the sofa is next to the window
• الصالة واسعة = the living room is spacious

If you want past or future, then Arabic uses verbs:

• الستارة كانت كبيرة = the curtain was big
• الستارة هتكون كبيرة = the curtain will be big

هي means she/it for a feminine noun. Since الستارة is feminine, هي here means it.

So:

• وهي جنب الكنبة = and it is next to the sofa

In Arabic, especially in this kind of sentence, repeating the subject with a pronoun can sound very natural and clear.

You may also hear simpler versions like:

• الستارة اللي في الصالة كبيرة وجنب الكنبة

But وهي جنب الكنبة clearly restates the subject and sounds very normal.

جنب means next to, beside, or by.

So:

• جنب الكنبة = next to the sofa

It is very common in Egyptian Arabic for location:

• الكتاب جنب السرير = the book is next to the bed
• العربية جنب البيت = the car is next to the house

You may also hear:

• بجانب = beside / next to

But جنب is very common and natural in everyday Egyptian speech.

In Egyptian Arabic, الصالة often means the living room, sitting room, or sometimes the hall/main sitting area of a home.

So in this sentence:

• في الصالة = in the living room

Depending on the house and the speaker, الصالة can overlap with ideas like:

• hall
• lounge
• family sitting room

But in many everyday contexts, translating it as living room is the most natural choice.

A natural pronunciation would be something like:

es-setāra elli fis-sāla kbīra, we hiyya gamb el-kanaba

A few notes:

• الستارة is often pronounced es-setāra
• اللي = elli
• في الصالة often runs together as fis-sāla
• جنب is commonly pronounced gamb in Egyptian Arabic
• الكنبة = el-kanaba

Pronunciation can vary a little by speaker, but this is a good practical version to learn.

That is the normal pattern in Arabic.

In English:

• the big curtain

In Arabic:

• الستارة الكبيرة
  literally: the curtain the-big

And in a sentence:

• الستارة كبيرة = the curtain is big

So Arabic usually puts:

1. the noun first
2. then the adjective after it

That is why you see الستارة first and كبيرة after it.

Yes, الكنبة is treated as feminine.

One reason is that it ends in ـة, which is a very common feminine ending in Arabic. So speakers naturally treat it as feminine.

الكنبة means the sofa / the couch, and it is a very common everyday word in Egyptian Arabic.

Examples:

• الكنبة كبيرة = the sofa is big
• الكنبة جديدة = the sofa is new

ال is the Arabic definite article, equivalent to the in English.

So:

• ستارة = a curtain

• الستارة = the curtain

• صالة = a living room / hall

• الصالة = the living room / hall

• كنبة = a sofa
• الكنبة = the sofa

In your sentence, all three nouns are definite:

• الستارة = the curtain
• الصالة = the living room
• الكنبة = the sofa

Because في is the normal word for in.

So:

• في الصالة = in the living room

It is used exactly the way you would expect in many cases:

• في البيت = in the house
• في الأوضة = in the room
• في المطبخ = in the kitchen

So اللي في الصالة literally means that is in the living room.

Yes. It has two linked parts:

1. الستارة اللي في الصالة كبيرة
   = the curtain that is in the living room is big

2. وهي جنب الكنبة
   = and it is next to the sofa

So the full sentence describes the curtain in two ways:

• its size: كبيرة
• its location: جنب الكنبة

This is a very common way to build descriptions in Egyptian Arabic.