في الاوضة اربع كراسي.

Egyptian Arabic often uses a place-first structure to say that something exists somewhere.

So the pattern here is:

• في الأوضة = in the room
• أربع كراسي = four chairs

Literally, it is In the room, four chairs, but the natural English meaning is There are four chairs in the room.

Starting with أربع كراسي is also possible, but it sounds more like you are focusing on the chairs themselves rather than on what is in the room.

There is no missing verb. In Arabic, especially in the present tense, you often do not use a word for is/are the way English does.

So:

• English: There are four chairs in the room
• Egyptian Arabic: في الأوضة أربع كراسي

This is a normal kind of verbless sentence in Arabic.

You may also hear فيه used to mean there is / there are, for example:

• فيه أربع كراسي في الأوضة

But the sentence you were given is already natural and complete.

Yes. الأوضة means the room, and it is a very common Egyptian Arabic word.

A few useful points:

• أوضة / اوضة = room
• الأوضة = the room
• In Modern Standard Arabic, the usual word would be الغرفة

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

In informal Arabic writing, people often leave out the hamza spelling. So both of these can represent the same word:

• الاوضة
• الأوضة

In careful spelling, الأوضة is more complete, but in texting or casual writing, الاوضة is extremely common.

This happens a lot in everyday written dialect.

A natural pronunciation is roughly:

• fi l-ōḍa
• or fil-ōḍa

A few things are happening:

• في is fi
• ال is the definite article the
• In fast speech, في and ال run together, so في الأوضة sounds like fil-ōḍa

Also, the ض in أوضة is an emphatic consonant, so it is not a plain English d.

In Egyptian Arabic, before a noun, speakers very often use the shorter colloquial form:

• أربع كراسي = natural Egyptian wording

You may also see or learn the fuller form أربعة, especially in more careful, formal, or dictionary-style presentation, but أربع is very normal in speech and everyday Egyptian writing.

So for a learner, the safest takeaway is:

• أربع كراسي is the natural Egyptian form in this sentence.

Because after numbers like 3–10, Arabic normally uses a plural noun.

So:

• كرسي = chair
• كراسي = chairs

That is why the sentence has:

• أربع كراسي = four chairs

This is different from English only in the sense that Arabic number systems have their own agreement patterns, but here the main thing to remember is simple:

• with four, you use the plural noun: كراسي

The singular is:

• كرسي = chair

The plural is:

• كراسي = chairs

This is a broken plural, which means the word does not just add a regular ending. Instead, the internal shape changes.

That is very common in Arabic, so it is worth learning vocabulary in pairs when possible:

• كرسي → كراسي

Because after a number, the counted noun is usually indefinite unless you are talking about a very specific, already identified set.

So:

• أربع كراسي = four chairs

That is the normal form here.

If you added ال to كراسي, it would sound much less natural in this sentence and would suggest a more specific meaning that is not intended here.

Yes, you can. But the focus changes slightly.

• في الأوضة أربع كراسي puts the focus on what is in the room
• أربع كراسي في الأوضة puts the focus more on the four chairs

Both can be understandable and natural in the right context, but the version you were given is a very common way to express existence/location.

In Modern Standard Arabic, you would normally not use أوضة, because that is dialectal. A more standard version would use غرفة:

• في الغرفة أربعة كراسٍ

A learner should notice two main differences:

• الأوضة is Egyptian colloquial, while الغرفة is standard
• Egyptian Arabic usually drops the case endings that Standard Arabic has

So the sentence you were given is clearly meant as Egyptian spoken Arabic, not formal written Arabic.