القطة بيج.

A rough pronunciation is:

• il-'eṭṭa bej
• or el-'eṭṭa bej

A few useful notes:

• الـ is usually il- or el- in speech.
• In many urban Levantine accents, ق is pronounced like a glottal stop, so قطة sounds like 'eṭṭa.
• In some accents, ق stays q, so you may also hear qeṭṭa.
• ط is a heavier, emphatic t, and it is doubled here.
• بيج is usually said something like bej; in some accents the final ج sounds more like zh, and in others more like j.

Because in Levantine Arabic, the present-tense to be is usually omitted.

So:

• القطة بيج = The cat is beige

This is completely normal Arabic sentence structure.

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

• القطة كانت بيج = The cat was beige
• القطة رح تكون بيج = The cat will be beige

So the missing is is not a mistake; it is how present-tense Arabic works.

الـ is the Arabic definite article, meaning the.

So:

• قطة = a cat / cat
• القطة = the cat

In this word, the ل of الـ is pronounced normally, because ق is a moon letter, not a sun letter. So you say something like il-qeṭṭa or il-'eṭṭa, not a merged form.

Because these two forms mean different things.

• القطة بيج = The cat is beige
• القطة البيج = the beige cat

In القطة بيج, بيج is the predicate: it tells you something about the cat.

In القطة البيج, البيج is part of the noun phrase, describing which cat you mean.

So if you want a full sentence, القطة بيج is right.

Arabic normally places descriptive words after the noun, not before it like English often does.

So Arabic prefers:

• القطة البيج = literally the cat beige = the beige cat

And in a full sentence:

• القطة بيج = The cat is beige

So seeing the describing word after the noun is normal in Arabic.

Yes, قطة is feminine.

But بيج is a borrowed color word, and in everyday Levantine these borrowed color words often do not change for gender. They stay the same.

So you can say:

• القطة بيج
• السيارة بيج

with the same بيج.

This is different from many native Arabic adjectives, which do show feminine agreement. For example:

• القطة حمرا = The cat is red

Here حمرا is clearly feminine. But بيج usually stays unchanged.

It is definitely understood, and it is fine to use.

But in everyday Levantine speech, many speakers more often say:

• بسّة / بسة

So depending on the region and situation, البسّة بيج may sound more conversational than القطة بيج.

A good way to think about it:

• قطة = correct, common, widely understood, sometimes a bit closer to Standard Arabic
• بسة = very everyday Levantine in many areas

Usually, no.

The normal simple sentence is just:

• القطة بيج

Adding هي is possible in some contexts, but it usually adds emphasis, contrast, or a special discourse effect rather than being required.

For example:

• القطة هي بيج، مو رمادي
  = The cat is beige, not gray

So for a basic statement, leave هي out.

That final ة is called taa marbuuTa. It often marks feminine nouns.

In pause, as in this sentence, it is usually pronounced like -a:

• قطة → 'eṭṭa / qeṭṭa

But when another ending or construction follows, it can sound like -t. For example:

• لون القطة = the color of the cat

So in القطة بيج, you pronounce the end as -a, not -t.

You would add the appropriate form of to be.

Common examples:

• القطة كانت بيج = The cat was beige
• القطة رح تكون بيج = The cat will be beige
• In some areas: القطة حتكون بيج = The cat will be beige

This is useful because it shows the pattern clearly:

• present: no is
• past/future: use كانت / تكون etc.