المعلومات بالملف.

Yes. In Levantine Arabic, as in Arabic generally, the verb to be is usually omitted in the present tense.

So:

المعلومات بالملف
literally: the information in-the-file
natural meaning: The information is in the file.

This is a normal present-tense sentence. If you want to make it more explicit, you could also say:

المعلومات موجودة بالملف
= The information is موجودة / present / found in the file

But the shorter version is completely natural.

بالملف is made of:

• بـ = a preposition that often means in, at, with, by, depending on context
• الملف = the file

So بالملف here means in the file.

In Levantine, بـ is very commonly used where English would use in. So this is very natural speech.

Both can work, but in Levantine بـ is extremely common for location.

So these can both mean in the file:

• بالملف
• في الملف

The difference is mostly about usage and style:

• بالملف sounds very natural in Levantine speech
• في الملف is also correct, but can sound a bit more formal or more like Standard Arabic, depending on context

So if you hear المعلومات بالملف, that is normal everyday Levantine.

A common Levantine-style pronunciation would be:

el-maʕluumaat bil-malaf

A rough breakdown:

• المعلومات → el-maʕluumaat
• بالملف → bil-malaf

A few notes:

• الـ is usually pronounced el- or il- in Levantine
• ع in معلومات is the sound written here as ʕ. English does not really have this sound.
• بـ + الـ becomes bil- in pronunciation

If you are a beginner, saying something close to el-maluumaat bil-malaf will usually still be understood, even if your ع is not perfect yet.

Grammatically, معلومات is a plural form. Its singular is:

معلومة = a piece of information / a fact

Plural:

معلومات = pieces of information / information

But in real usage, معلومات often works like the English mass noun information. So even though it looks plural, it is often the normal word for information in general.

That is why المعلومات بالملف is naturally understood as:

The information is in the file.

not necessarily:

The informations are in the file
which is not natural English anyway.

Because both nouns are definite:

• المعلومات = the information
• الملف = the file

The Arabic definite article الـ works like English the.

So the sentence is specifically talking about:

• a particular set of information
• a particular file

If you removed الـ, the meaning would become less definite and might sound like:

information is in a file / in the file, depending on context.

This is a nominal sentence, which is very common in Arabic.

It has two main parts:

• المعلومات = the topic / subject
• بالملف = the predicate, specifically a prepositional phrase

So the structure is:

[subject/topic] + [prepositional phrase]

Literally:

The information + in the file

In English, we usually need is in the middle, but Arabic does not in the present tense.

Yes, ملف is perfectly normal and widely understood.

In everyday speech, especially in tech or office contexts, many speakers also use the loanword:

فايل = file

So you might also hear:

المعلومات بالفايل

Both are understandable. Very generally:

• ملف can sound a bit more Arabic/native or slightly more formal
• فايل is very common in casual modern speech, especially for digital files

But المعلومات بالملف is absolutely fine.

In Levantine, a common way is to use مش:

المعلومات مش بالملف
= The information is not in the file

In some areas, people may also use مو instead of مش:

المعلومات مو بالملف

Both are good Levantine patterns, depending on region.

Usually, المعلومات بالملف is the more neutral and natural order.

If you put بالملف first, it can sound marked or emphatic, as if you are stressing the location:

بالملف المعلومات
roughly: In the file is the information

That kind of word order is possible in some contexts, but it is less neutral. For a learner, the safest version is:

المعلومات بالملف