فريقنا يفوز بالمباراة.

In Arabic, possessive pronouns are usually attached directly to the noun.

• فريق = team
• نا = our

So:

• فريقنا = our team

This is very normal in Arabic. English says our team, but Arabic literally builds it as team-our.

Also, once a noun has a possessive suffix like نا, it is already definite, so you do not add ال to فريق.

فريق is grammatically singular. It means team, which is a group of people, but Arabic treats it as a singular noun.

That is why the verb is singular:

• فريقنا يفوز = our team wins / is winning

Not:

• فريقنا يفوزون

Even though a team contains many people, the noun itself is singular, so the verb agrees with the noun, not with the number of people inside the group.

Arabic does not divide the present in the same way English does.

The form يفوز is the imperfect verb form, and depending on context it can mean things like:

• wins
• is winning
• will win

So this one form can cover both simple present and present continuous ideas.

If you want to make right now clearer, Arabic often adds a time word such as:

• الآن = now

For example:

• فريقنا يفوز الآن بالمباراة = our team is winning the match now

يفوز is the imperfect form of the verb فاز.

• past: فاز = won
• imperfect/present: يفوز = wins / is winning

It is:

• third person
• masculine
• singular

That matches فريقنا, because فريق is a singular masculine noun.

This is one of the most important things to notice in the sentence.

The verb فاز / يفوز in MSA commonly takes the preposition بـ before the thing won:

• فاز بالمباراة = won the match
• فاز بالجائزة = won the prize

So in Arabic, this verb often works like a verb + preposition combination.

A native English speaker may expect a direct object because English says win the match, but Arabic usually says something more like win by/with the match in structure, even though the natural English translation is still simply win the match.

Because Arabic prepositions are often written attached to the following word.

Here:

• بِ = with / by / in this pattern, marking the thing won
• المباراة = the match

When combined, they are written together:

• بالمباراة

In pronunciation, this is bil-mubārāh in pause, or bil-mubārāti in full case pronunciation.

Also, the ل of ال is pronounced here because م is a moon letter, not a sun letter.

Yes, that is also grammatical.

• فريقنا يفوز بالمباراة
• يفوز فريقنا بالمباراة

Both are correct, but the word order changes the feel a little.

فريقنا يفوز بالمباراة

This starts with our team, so it gives that noun more prominence, like:

• Our team is winning the match

يفوز فريقنا بالمباراة

This begins with the verb, which is also very common in Arabic and can sound more neutral or more narrative:

• Our team wins / is winning the match

So the difference is mainly about emphasis and style, not basic meaning.

The noun مباراة is grammatically feminine, and one obvious clue is the final ة (taa marbuuTa).

Many Arabic nouns ending in ة are feminine.

That matters for agreement when you use adjectives or pronouns with the word later. For example, if you described the match, the adjective would normally be feminine too.

In this sentence, the femininity of المباراة does not change the form of يفوز, because the verb is agreeing with فريقنا, not with المباراة.

Arabic usually does not use a separate present-tense verb to be the way English does.

In this sentence, there is already a real verb:

• يفوز = wins / is winning

So Arabic does not need any extra word for is.

More generally, even in sentences without an action verb, Arabic often leaves out present-tense is/are entirely.

A fully vowelled version would be:

فَرِيقُنا يَفُوزُ بِالْمُبَارَاةِ

Here is why:

• فَرِيقُنا: nominative, because it is the main subject/topic
• يَفُوزُ: imperfect indicative
• بِالْمُبَارَاةِ: genitive, because it comes after the preposition بِ

In normal Arabic writing, these short vowels are usually omitted, so you normally just see:

فريقنا يفوز بالمباراة

A careful pronunciation is:

farīqunā yafūzu bil-mubārāti

If you stop naturally at the end, it may sound more like:

farīqunā yafūzu bil-mubārāh

A few helpful notes:

• فريقنا = fa-rī-qu-nā
• يفوز = ya-fūz
• بالمباراة = bil-mu-bā-rāh in pause

The long vowels matter:

• ري in فريق
• فو in يفوز
• با and را in مباراة

Yes. A noun with a possessive suffix is automatically definite.

So:

• فريق = a team / team
• فريقنا = our team

Because our team is specific, Arabic treats it as definite. That is why فريقنا does not need ال, and in fact ال would not be used there.

This is a very common Arabic pattern:

• كتابي = my book
• بيتنا = our house
• مدرستهم = their school