المعلبات جاهزة.

The canned food is ready.

Breakdown of المعلبات جاهزة.

• جاهز: ready
• معلبات: the canned food

Questions & Answers about المعلبات جاهزة.

How would I pronounce المعلبات جاهزة in Levantine?

A common Levantine-style pronunciation is el-muʿallabāt jāhze or il-muʿallabāt jāhze.

A few useful notes:

• ال is usually pronounced el- or il-, depending on region.
• جاهزة usually ends in an -e sound in Levantine speech, so جاهزة sounds like jāhze.
• The letter ع in معلبات is the consonant ʿayn, which has no exact English equivalent. English speakers often find that sound difficult at first.

Why is there no word for are in the sentence?

Because Arabic usually drops the verb to be in the present tense.

So:

• المعلبات جاهزة = The canned goods are ready

Literally, it is more like:

• the canned goods ready

This is completely normal in Arabic, including Levantine.

But in other tenses, you do use a form of to be:

• المعلبات كانت جاهزة = The canned goods were ready
• المعلبات رح تكون جاهزة = The canned goods will be ready

What kind of word is المعلبات? Is it singular or plural?

المعلبات is a plural noun.

It is built from the singular , and the ending is a very common feminine plural ending in Arabic.