الفواكه اليوم منيحة كتير، والبرتقال كمان منيح.

Because in Arabic, non-human plurals are usually treated grammatically as feminine singular when adjectives agree with them.

So even though الفواكه means fruits and is plural, the adjective comes as منيحة (feminine singular), not a human-style plural adjective.

So:

• الفواكه منيحة
• literally: the fruits [are] good
• grammatically: non-human plural + feminine singular adjective

This is very common in Arabic:

• الخضرة طيبة = the vegetables are good
• الكتب جديدة = the books are new

Because البرتقال is treated as a singular masculine noun here, so the adjective agrees with it as منيح.

So the contrast is:

• الفواكه منيحة → non-human plural, so feminine singular agreement
• البرتقال منيح → singular masculine, so masculine singular agreement

This kind of agreement is one of the most important things to notice in Arabic.

It can mean either, depending on context.

In everyday Arabic, names of fruits often work like category nouns or mass nouns. So البرتقال can mean:

• the orange
• oranges
• orange fruit in general

In this sentence, it most likely means oranges in a general sense, like talking about that type of fruit as a category.

So even though the word looks singular, the meaning can be more general.

منيح (masculine) and منيحة (feminine) mean good in Levantine Arabic.

They are very common in speech and are colloquial, not formal Modern Standard Arabic.

Compare:

• Levantine: منيح / منيحة
• MSA: جيد / جيدة

If you're learning spoken Levantine, منيح is an extremely useful everyday word.

Because in Arabic, especially in the present tense, you usually do not use a verb meaning is/are in sentences like this.

So:

• الفواكه اليوم منيحة كتير literally looks like:
• the fruits today very-good

But the meaning is:

• The fruits are very good today

This is called a nominal sentence. In the present tense, the verb to be is normally omitted.

كتير here means very.

So:

• منيحة كتير = very good

In Levantine, كتير can mean different things depending on context:

• very
• a lot
• many/much

Here it works as an intensifier after the adjective.

Examples:

• حلو كتير = very nice
• برد كتير = very cold
• بحبها كتير = I love her a lot

That is the normal pattern in Levantine Arabic.

You usually say:

• منيحة كتير = very good
• كبير كتير = very big
• صعب كتير = very difficult

So unlike English, where very comes before the adjective, in Levantine كتير usually comes after it.

اليوم means today.

Its position is flexible in Arabic. In this sentence:

• الفواكه اليوم منيحة كتير

the speaker is basically saying:

• As for the fruits, today they’re very good

Putting اليوم after الفواكه sounds natural and helps frame the statement around the fruits today.

You could also hear other word orders, such as:

• اليوم الفواكه منيحة كتير
• الفواكه منيحة كتير اليوم

The exact emphasis changes a little, but all are understandable.

كمان means also, too, or as well.

So:

• البرتقال كمان منيح means:
• The oranges are also good or
• The oranges too are good

It adds another item to what was already said.

They do different jobs:

• و = and
• كمان = also/too

So:

• والبرتقال كمان منيح means:
• and the oranges are also good

The و connects the second clause to the first one, and كمان adds the meaning of also.

If you removed كمان, the meaning would be:

• and the oranges are good

If you removed و, the sentence might still be understandable in speech, but the connection would sound different.

Because in Arabic, short particles like و are written attached to the following word.

So:

• و + البرتقال becomes:
• والبرتقال

This is normal Arabic spelling. The same happens with many other particles and prepositions.

A natural approximate pronunciation would be:

il-fawākeh il-yōm mnīḥa ktīr, wil-burtuʔān kamān mnīḥ

A few useful notes:

• الـ is often pronounced il- in Levantine
• و before a word is often pronounced w- or wi-
• كتير is commonly ktīr
• منيح / منيحة are often pronounced mnīḥ / mnīḥa

Exact pronunciation varies by country and city, but this is a good broad Levantine approximation.

Yes. Arabic word order is quite flexible, especially in sentences like this.

Possible alternatives include:

• اليوم الفواكه منيحة كتير، والبرتقال كمان منيح
• الفواكه منيحة كتير اليوم، والبرتقال كمان منيح

The original version sounds natural and topicalizes الفواكه first. Other orders may shift emphasis slightly, but the basic meaning stays the same.

It is clearly Levantine-style spoken Arabic, mainly because of words like:

• منيح / منيحة
• كتير
• كمان

Speakers from other Arabic-speaking regions would often understand it, but they may use different everyday words themselves.

For example, in Modern Standard Arabic, a more formal version would use different vocabulary, such as جيدة instead of منيحة.