المعلبات جاهزة.

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.

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

المعلبات is a plural noun.

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

So, structurally:

• معلّبة = one canned item / one can
• معلّبات = canned items / canned goods

In real usage, معلبات often works like a category noun, similar to canned goods in English.

ال is the Arabic definite article, equivalent to the.

So:

• المعلبات = the canned goods

Without ال, the noun would be indefinite, more like canned goods or some canned goods, depending on context.

This is one of the most important agreement patterns in Arabic.

Non-human plurals are very often treated as feminine singular for agreement, especially in standard Arabic and very commonly in Levantine too.

So:

• المعلبات is plural
• but the adjective is جاهزة, the feminine singular form

That is why you get:

• المعلبات جاهزة

not normally:

• المعلبات جاهزون
• المعلبات جاهزين

Compare that with a human plural:

• الطلاب جاهزين = The students are ready

So the short rule is:

• human plural → usually plural agreement
• non-human plural → often feminine singular agreement

The basic adjective is جاهز, meaning ready.

Its common forms are:

• جاهز = masculine singular
• جاهزة = feminine singular
• جاهزين = plural in Levantine

In your sentence, جاهزة is used because المعلبات is a non-human plural, which commonly takes feminine singular agreement.

It works in both.

In writing, المعلبات جاهزة looks very natural in Modern Standard Arabic, and it is also perfectly understandable in Levantine.

What changes more in Levantine is the pronunciation, and sometimes the surrounding wording. For example, a Levantine speaker might also say:

• هالمعلبات جاهزة = These canned goods are ready

But the sentence you have is absolutely fine and natural.

In Levantine, the normal way is to use مش:

• المعلبات مش جاهزة = The canned goods are not ready

That is the most useful everyday pattern to learn.

You add a form of كان:

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

Both رح and حـ are common future markers in Levantine.

No. You do not need a separate pronoun here.

المعلبات جاهزة is already a complete sentence.

If you added a pronoun such as هي, it would usually sound emphatic or contrastive rather than neutral. So for a simple statement, just say:

• المعلبات جاهزة

That is the normal form.