استمارة التسجيل على الطاولة.

In Arabic, the present-tense to be is usually not stated in simple sentences like this.

So:

• استمارة التسجيل على الطاولة. literally looks like:
• The registration form on the table.

But it means:

• The registration form is on the table.

This is a very common feature of Arabic. In the present tense, Arabic often leaves out is / am / are.

This is because استمارة التسجيل is an iḍāfa construction, often called a genitive construction or noun-of-noun structure.

It works like this:

• استمارة = form
• التسجيل = the registration

Together:

• استمارة التسجيل = registration form / the registration form

Important rule:

• In an iḍāfa, the first noun does not take ال
• The second noun determines definiteness

So because التسجيل is definite, the whole phrase استمارة التسجيل is also definite:

• the registration form

It is an iḍāfa phrase made of two nouns:

1. استمارة = form
2. التسجيل = registration

The relationship is like:

• form of registration
• more naturally in English: registration form

In this structure:

• the first noun is called the muḍāf
• the second noun is called the muḍāf ilayh

A key point:

• the first noun cannot take ال
• the second noun is in the genitive case in full grammar

So in fully vowelled Arabic, you could write:

• استمارةُ التسجيلِ على الطاولةِ

Because it is the second part of an iḍāfa.

In Arabic, the second noun in an iḍāfa is normally genitive. So:

• استمارةُ = nominative, because it is the main noun of the sentence
• التسجيلِ = genitive, because it is attached to استمارة in an iḍāfa
• الطاولةِ = genitive, because it comes after the preposition على

So the case pattern in full vocalization is:

• استمارةُ التسجيلِ على الطاولةِ

Even if learners usually see unvowelled text, this is the underlying grammar.

على الطاولة means on the table.

It is a prepositional phrase:

• على = on
• الطاولة = the table

In the sentence, this phrase gives the location of the registration form. In traditional grammar, it functions as the predicate of the nominal sentence.

So the sentence structure is roughly:

• استمارة التسجيل = the registration form
• على الطاولة = is on the table

Because ط is a sun letter.

When ال comes before a sun letter, the l sound of ال is not pronounced, and the next consonant is doubled.

So:

• written: الطاولة
• pronounced: aṭ-ṭāwila

The same thing happens in التسجيل because ت is also a sun letter:

• written: التسجيل
• pronounced: at-tasjīl or at-tسجيل depending on transliteration style

This is a pronunciation rule, not a spelling change.

A common pronunciation is:

istimārat at-tasjīl ʿalā aṭ-ṭāwila

Word by word:

• استمارة = istimāra / istimārat
• التسجيل = at-tasjīl
• على = ʿalā
• الطاولة = aṭ-ṭāwila

You may hear استمارة as istimāra when stopping, but in connected reading its grammatical form is istimāratu in full case ending, or istimārat before the next word in careful explanation of structure.

For most learners, istimārat at-tasjīl ʿalā aṭ-ṭāwila is a helpful reading.

Because it ends in ة (tāʾ marbūṭa), which very often marks a feminine noun.

So:

• استمارة is grammatically feminine

This matters when adjectives or verbs agree with it. For example, if you added an adjective, it would usually be feminine too.

However, in this sentence there is no adjective or past-tense verb showing agreement, so the feminine gender is not very visible yet.

Yes, Arabic word order is flexible.

You can say:

• استمارة التسجيل على الطاولة.
• على الطاولة استمارةُ التسجيل.

Both are possible, though they can feel slightly different in emphasis.

The version with the noun phrase first is a straightforward way to say:

• The registration form is on the table

Putting على الطاولة first can emphasize the location more:

• On the table is the registration form
• The registration form is on the table there

Word order in Arabic often changes for emphasis, focus, or style.

In this exact sentence, it is most naturally understood as the registration form, because التسجيل is definite and the whole iḍāfa becomes definite.

If you wanted a registration form, you would usually make the phrase indefinite, for example with an indefinite second noun if the context allowed it.

So:

• استمارة التسجيل = the registration form not usually
• a registration form

This is one reason iḍāfa is important: definiteness does not work exactly the same way as in English.

In fully vocalized formal Arabic, it would be:

استمارةُ التسجيلِ على الطاولةِ

Here is why:

• استمارةُ → nominative, because it is the subject/topic of the nominal sentence
• التسجيلِ → genitive, because it is the second noun in the iḍāfa
• الطاولةِ → genitive, because it follows the preposition على

In normal everyday writing, these endings are usually omitted, so you will normally just see:

استمارة التسجيل على الطاولة

without the short vowels.