المشجع بالمباراة.

The supporter is at the match.

Breakdown of المشجع بالمباراة.

• مباراة: match
• مشجع: the supporter; fan

Questions & Answers about المشجع بالمباراة.

How would a Levantine speaker usually pronounce المشجع بالمباراة?

A common Levantine-style pronunciation would be roughly il-mshajjeʿ bil-mbāra or el-mshajjeʿ bel-mbāra, depending on the region.

A few helpful notes:

• الـ often sounds like il- / el- in Levantine.
• بـ + الـ becomes bil- / bel- in speech.
• The last sound in مشجع is ع, so the word does not end like a plain English consonant.
• The final ة in مباراة is usually heard as -a / -eh here, not -t.

Is this a complete sentence, or just a phrase?

It can be a complete sentence in Arabic.

Arabic often allows a noun + prepositional phrase structure as a full present-tense sentence. So المشجع بالمباراة can function as:

• the fan is at the match
• or, depending on context, the fan at the match

Arabic relies more on context than English does, so the same words can sometimes feel sentence-like or phrase-like.

Why is there no word for is?

Because in Arabic, especially in present-tense nominal sentences, to be is usually omitted.

So instead of saying something equivalent to the fan is at the match, Arabic simply says:

• المشجع بالمباراة

The meaning of is understood automatically.