الراتب جيد.

A careful MSA pronunciation is ar-rātibu jayyidun.

In normal pause, you will often hear it as ar-rātib jayyid.

A few useful notes:

• الراتب = ar-rātib
• جيد = jayyid
• The ل of الـ is not pronounced clearly here because ر is a sun letter, so الراتب sounds like ar-rātib, not al-rātib.
• جيد has a doubled y sound: jay-yid.

Because Arabic often leaves out the verb to be in the present tense.

So:

• الراتب جيد = The salary is good

There is no separate word for is here. This is completely normal in Arabic.

But in other tenses, Arabic does use a verb:

• كان الراتب جيدًا = The salary was good
• سيكون الراتب جيدًا = The salary will be good

In this sentence, جيد is the predicate of the sentence, not just an adjective inside a noun phrase.

The structure is:

• الراتب = the topic / subject
• جيد = the comment about it

So the pattern is:

• [noun] + [description]
• The salary + good
• Meaning: The salary is good

This is normal Arabic word order for a simple nominal sentence.

Because here جيد is the predicate, and predicates in sentences like this are usually indefinite.

So:

• الراتب جيد = The salary is good

But if you say:

• الراتب الجيد

that does not mean The salary is good.
It means the good salary.

So the presence or absence of الـ changes the structure:

• الراتب جيد = a full sentence
• الراتب الجيد = a noun phrase

You would say:

• راتب جيد

This is a noun followed by an adjective, both indefinite:

• راتب = a salary
• جيد = good

So:

• راتب جيد = a good salary

Compare:

• راتب جيد = a good salary
• الراتب جيد = the salary is good
• الراتب الجيد = the good salary

These are three different patterns, and learners often mix them up at first.

Usually, no.

The natural MSA sentence is simply:

• الراتب جيد

You normally do not insert هو in a basic sentence like this.

Arabic does sometimes use a pronoun such as هو for emphasis or in certain styles, but for a beginner sentence like this, leaving it out is correct and natural.

Fully vocalized, the sentence is:

• الراتبُ جيدٌ

This is pronounced ar-rātibu jayyidun.

Why those endings?

• الراتبُ has ـُ because it is the subject/topic of the nominal sentence.
• جيدٌ has ـٌ because it is the predicate and is indefinite.

In everyday reading and speech, these short vowel endings are often not written and may not be pronounced clearly, especially in pause. That is why you often just see:

• الراتب جيد

Because ر is one of the sun letters.

When الـ comes before a sun letter, the l sound assimilates to the next consonant. So:

• الراتب is written with ال
• but pronounced ar-rātib

The spelling does not change, only the pronunciation.

This happens with other sun letters too, for example:

• الشمس → ash-shams
• الناس → an-nās

Because it matches الراتب, which is a masculine singular noun.

In Arabic, adjectives and predicate adjectives normally agree with the noun in:

• gender
• number
• definiteness, when they are attributive adjectives

Here جيد is masculine singular because راتب is masculine singular.

If the noun were feminine, you would use جيدة:

• الوظيفة جيدة = The job is good

So the form of good changes depending on the noun it describes.

For a basic beginner sentence, the best order is:

• الراتب جيد

That is the normal, neutral way to say The salary is good.

Arabic can sometimes move things around for emphasis or style, but that is not the default pattern you should learn first. For now, it is best to treat this as the standard order:

• subject/topic + predicate

So if you want to say this naturally and safely in MSA, use:

• الراتب جيد