الاطار اسود.

A safe learner pronunciation is el-ʔiṭār aswad.

A few useful notes:

• The more standard spelling is الإطار أسود.
• The ṭ in إطار is an emphatic t.
• In some Levantine accents, أسود may sound a bit closer to iswed / iswid, but aswad is a good form for learners to recognize and say.

Because Arabic often makes simple present-tense sentences without a verb to be.

So الإطار أسود literally looks like the frame black, but it means the frame is black.

This is very normal in both Standard Arabic and Levantine. If you want past or future, then Arabic uses other forms, but in the present tense, no separate is is needed here.

In Arabic, descriptive words normally come after the noun they describe.

So Arabic says:

• الإطار الأسود = the black frame

And in a sentence like:

• الإطار أسود = the frame is black

the noun still comes first, and the description follows it. This is the normal Arabic word order.

This is a very important difference.

• الإطار أسود is a full sentence: The frame is black.
• الإطار الأسود is a noun phrase: the black frame

Why? Because in الإطار أسود, أسود is the predicate of the sentence, so it does not take ال.

But in الإطار الأسود, الأسود is an adjective directly describing الإطار, so it matches it in definiteness and takes ال too.

Yes. أسود is the masculine singular form.

If the noun were feminine, Levantine usually uses سودا in everyday speech. In more formal Arabic, you would see سوداء.

For example:

• السيارة سودا = The car is black

So the color word changes to match the gender of the noun.

The structure works in both.

A Levantine speaker would understand it immediately, and everyday Levantine uses this same basic pattern: noun + description, with no present-tense is.

What feels a bit more formal is the spelling. Spoken Levantine may sound slightly different from the written form, especially in vowels, but the grammar here is perfectly natural.

In fully standard spelling, it would usually be written as الإطار أسود.

The version الاطار اسود is common in informal writing, where people often leave out hamzas. That happens a lot in casual Arabic text.

So:

• الإطار أسود = more careful / standard spelling
• الاطار اسود = common informal spelling

Yes, you do.

That is because the word begins with إ / hamza, which is not a sun letter, so the l of ال stays audible.

So you say something like:

• el-ʔiṭār

Compare that with a sun-letter word such as الشمس, where the l is not pronounced the same way.

To make it negative, Levantine commonly uses مش or, in some regions, مو:

• الإطار مش أسود = The frame is not black
• الإطار مو أسود = same meaning in some dialects

To make it a yes/no question, you can often just use rising intonation:

• الإطار أسود؟ = Is the frame black?

In everyday Levantine, intonation does a lot of work, so you usually do not need an extra word for is or for forming a basic yes/no question.