زوجته هي الدكتورة.

A common Levantine-style pronunciation would be:

zawjto hiyye d-doktōra

A few notes:

• زوجته is often pronounced zawjto in Levantine.
• هي is usually pronounced hiyye or hiyé, not the more formal hiya.
• الدكتورة is pronounced id-doktōra or d-doktōra in connected speech, because د is a sun letter, so the l in ال assimilates.

زوجته means his wife.

It breaks down like this:

• زوجة = wife
• ـه = his

So literally:

• زوجة + ه = زوجته
• wife + his = his wife

Also, an important grammar point:

The final ة in زوجة becomes a pronounced t when a suffix is added. That is why you get زوجتـه, not just زوجه.

Because the final ة (called taa marbuuTa) behaves differently when something is attached to it.

By itself:

• زوجة is pronounced roughly zawje / zawja

But when a possessive suffix is added, that ة turns into a real t sound:

• زوجته = zawjto = his wife
• زوجتي = zawjti = my wife

This is very common in Arabic.

That is a very common question.

Arabic usually does leave out the present-tense verb to be. So in many sentences, there is no separate word for is.

However, in this sentence, هي is not exactly a normal verb. It is a pronoun, and here it works like a linker between two definite parts of the sentence.

So:

• زوجته الدكتورة can sound incomplete or unclear in some contexts
• زوجته هي الدكتورة is clearer and more natural when you want to say His wife is the doctor

You can think of هي here as something like:

• she is
• or a separator that helps equate his wife with the doctor

In Levantine, this kind of pronoun is very common in equational sentences, especially when both sides are definite.

Because this sentence is identifying one specific person as another specific person.

• زوجته is definite because it means his wife. Possessed nouns are automatically definite.
• الدكتورة is definite because it means the doctor, a specific identified doctor.

So the sentence is not saying:

• His wife is a doctor

It is saying:

• His wife is the doctor

That is, the wife is the specific person who is the doctor.

Because the wife is female, so the noun for doctor is also put in the feminine form:

• الدكتور = the male doctor
• الدكتورة = the female doctor

Since زوجته refers to a woman, الدكتورة matches that.

It is understandable, but it sounds somewhat formal because زوجة is more formal or standard.

In everyday Levantine, people very often say مرة or مرته / مرتو for his wife, depending on the region and style.

So a more colloquial Levantine version might be:

• مرته هي الدكتورة
• or مرتو هي الدكتورة

The written sentence زوجته هي الدكتورة is perfectly clear, but it feels closer to formal Arabic or careful speech than casual conversation.

Yes, depending on context.

الدكتورة can mean:

• the female doctor
• or the woman doctor
• and sometimes it can also be understood as the doctor / Dr. as a title

Context decides the most natural English translation.

So this sentence could mean something like:

• His wife is the doctor
• or in some contexts, His wife is Dr. [so-and-so]

But grammatically, الدكتورة is simply the feminine definite form of doctor.

You use the same noun زوجة and change the suffix:

• زوجتي = my wife
• زوجتك = your wife (to a man)
• زوجتكِ = your wife (to a woman)
• زوجته = his wife
• زوجتها = her wife

So the pattern is very useful:

• noun + suffix = possession

And again, notice that the ة becomes t when the suffix is added.

Sometimes Arabic does drop the pronoun, but here leaving it out can make the sentence less clear.

With هي:

• زوجته هي الدكتورة clearly means His wife is the doctor

Without هي:

• زوجته الدكتورة may sound like his wife, the doctor
• or like a noun phrase rather than a full sentence

So if your goal is clearly to say X is Y, keeping هي is a good idea here.

The structure is:

• زوجته = the subject/topic
• هي = linking pronoun
• الدكتورة = the predicate/identification

So the pattern is roughly:

[definite noun] + [pronoun] + [definite noun]

This is a very useful pattern in Arabic when you want to identify one definite thing as another definite thing, especially in the present tense.