المدينة جميلة.

A common Levantine pronunciation is il-madiine jmiile or el-madiine jmiile, depending on the region and speaker.

A few helpful notes:

• الـ is usually pronounced il- or el- in Levantine, not al- as in careful Standard Arabic.
• مدينة is often madiine in speech.
• جميلة is often pronounced jmiile in everyday Levantine, although a more careful or more Standard-like pronunciation jamiile also exists.

So:

• Standard Arabic style: al-madīna jamīla
• Levantine everyday speech: il-madiine jmiile

Because in Arabic, the present tense often does not use a separate word for is/am/are.

So المدينة جميلة literally looks like:

• the city
• beautiful

But it naturally means The city is beautiful.

This is very normal in both Standard Arabic and Levantine.

If you wanted other tenses, then Arabic does use extra words. For example:

• The city was beautiful would use a form of كان
• The city will be beautiful would use a future form such as رح تكون in Levantine

الـ is the definite article, like the in English.

So:

• مدينة = city / a city
• المدينة = the city

In Levantine, this الـ is usually pronounced il- or el-.

Also, in this word the l sound stays clear, because م is a moon letter, not a sun letter. So you pronounce the l:

• il-madiine, not something like im-madiine

Because here جميلة is the predicate of the sentence, not an adjective inside a noun phrase.

That is an important difference:

• المدينة جميلة = The city is beautiful
• المدينة الجميلة = the beautiful city

So in your sentence:

• المدينة is the subject
• جميلة is saying something about the subject

In Arabic, predicate adjectives like this are normally indefinite, so they do not take الـ here.

The ending ة (called taa marbuuTa) often marks a word as feminine.

Here:

• مدينة is a feminine noun
• جميلة is the feminine form of beautiful

Arabic adjectives usually agree with the noun they describe in gender, so because مدينة is feminine, the adjective is feminine too.

Compare:

• مدينة جميلة = a beautiful city
• بيت جميل = a beautiful house

In Levantine pronunciation, final ة is often pronounced more like -e:

• madiine
• jmiile

They are different structures:

• المدينة جميلة = The city is beautiful
• مدينة جميلة = a beautiful city

So:

1. المدينة جميلة

   • a full sentence
   • subject + predicate
   • means something complete

2. مدينة جميلة

   • just a noun phrase
   • adjective directly describes the noun
   • not a full sentence by itself in most contexts

This is a very useful contrast to learn early.

Yes, this is the normal basic order for this kind of sentence.

المدينة جميلة follows a common Arabic pattern:

• subject
• predicate

So:

• المدينة = the subject
• جميلة = what is being said about it

This is the most natural way to say it.

Arabic can sometimes change word order for emphasis or style, but for a beginner, المدينة جميلة is the pattern to remember.

In everyday Levantine, no.

A Levantine speaker would normally just say:

• il-madiine jmiile

In fully pronounced Standard Arabic, you might see or learn:

• المدينةُ جميلةٌ

Those final vowel endings are grammatical case endings, but they are generally:

• not written in normal everyday text
• not pronounced in Levantine speech

So if your focus is Levantine, you usually do not need them.

In most Levantine varieties, ج is pronounced like the j in judge.

So جميلة starts with a sound like:

• jmiile

That said, pronunciation can vary across the Arabic-speaking world:

• Levantine: usually j
• Egyptian Arabic: often g
• some other varieties may differ

For Levantine, j is the pronunciation you should learn first.

Yes. This is a very common Arabic sentence pattern:

• definite noun + adjective/predicate

Examples:

• البيت كبير = The house is big
• البنت ذكية = The girl is smart
• الأكلة طيبة = The food is tasty

In Levantine, this pattern is everywhere, so المدينة جميلة is a great model sentence to build from.