الخبرة العملية مهمة.

A fully vowelled version is:

الخِبْرَةُ العَمَلِيَّةُ مُهِمَّةٌ

A careful pronunciation would be roughly:

al-khibratu al-ʿamaliyyatu muhimmatun

A few useful notes:

• خ is a throaty kh sound, like the ch in German Bach.
• ع is a deep consonant from the throat. English does not really have it.
• ة at the end of الخِبْرَة and مُهِمَّة is tāʾ marbūṭa. In full grammatical pronunciation, it is pronounced as -a(tun / tu / ta) depending on context. In pause, it is usually just -a.
• In normal spoken reading, many speakers would pause and say something close to: al-khibra al-ʿamaliyya muhimma

Because Arabic often uses a nominal sentence in the present tense without an expressed verb to be.

So:

• الخبرة العملية مهمة = Work experience is important

There is no separate present-tense word for is here.

This is very normal in Arabic. Compare:

• البيت كبير = The house is big
• الجو جميل = The weather is nice

If you wanted a past or future meaning, Arabic would use a verb such as كان:

• كانت الخبرة العملية مهمة = Work experience was important

Word by word:

• الخبرة = the experience
• العملية = practical / work-related / operational
• مهمة = important

Together, الخبرة العملية acts as a phrase meaning practical experience or, more naturally in many contexts, work experience.

So the whole sentence means that work experience is important.

Because العملية is an adjective describing الخبرة, and in Arabic, adjectives usually match the noun they describe in definiteness as well as in gender and number.

Here:

• الخبرة = the experience (definite)
• so the adjective must also be definite:
• العملية = the practical / work-related

This gives:

• الخبرة العملية = the practical experience

If the noun were indefinite, the adjective would also be indefinite:

• خبرة عملية = practical experience

So the matching of الـ is a standard adjective rule.

Here it is functioning as an adjective modifying الخبرة.

So the structure is:

• الخبرة = noun
• العملية = adjective describing that noun

This is why it matches الخبرة in:

• gender: feminine
• number: singular
• definiteness: definite
• case: nominative in full grammar

Even though عملية can also be a noun in other contexts, in this sentence it is best understood as an adjective meaning practical or work-related.

Because it is describing or referring back to الخبرة العملية, and that phrase is grammatically feminine singular.

The head noun is خبرة, which is feminine. So the predicate adjective must also be feminine:

• الخبرة العملية مهمة
• not الخبرة العملية مهم

This is a very common rule in Arabic: adjectives and predicate adjectives agree with the noun in gender and number.

There are two main clues:

1. الخبرة العملية is definite
   It begins with الـ, so it is a good candidate for the subject of a nominal sentence.

2. مهمة is indefinite
   In full vocalization it would be مُهِمَّةٌ, which is a very typical form for the predicate in this kind of sentence.

So the structure is:

• الخبرة العملية = the topic / subject
• مهمة = the comment / predicate

This is one of the most common patterns in Arabic nominal sentences: definite noun phrase + indefinite adjective/noun

Because مهمة is not an attributive adjective inside the noun phrase الخبرة العملية. It is the predicate of the sentence.

Compare these two patterns:

1. Attributive adjective inside a noun phrase

   • الخبرة العملية = the practical experience
     Since it directly modifies a definite noun, it is also definite.

2. Predicate adjective in a sentence

   • الخبرة العملية مهمة = Work experience is important
     Here مهمة is not part of the noun phrase; it tells us something about it. So it is normally indefinite.

That is why you do not say:

• الخبرة العملية المهمة if you mean Work experience is important

That form would mean something more like:

• the important practical experience

In fully grammatical MSA, the sentence is:

الخِبْرَةُ العَمَلِيَّةُ مُهِمَّةٌ

Here is why:

• الخِبْرَةُ ends in -u because it is the subject of a nominal sentence, so it is nominative
• العَمَلِيَّةُ is an adjective modifying الخِبْرَة, so it also takes -u
• مُهِمَّةٌ is the predicate, and it is also nominative, with tanwīn because it is indefinite

In everyday reading, news writing, and most unvowelled text, these endings are not written.

Yes, but the basic order here is the most straightforward.

Standard order:

• الخبرة العملية مهمة

You can sometimes place the predicate first for emphasis or style:

• مهمةٌ الخبرةُ العمليةُ

But this sounds more marked and is less common for a beginner to use.

So if you are learning the normal pattern, stick with:

• subject first
• predicate second

The ة is called tāʾ marbūṭa. It often marks feminine nouns and adjectives.

In this sentence:

• الخبرة is feminine
• العملية is feminine
• مهمة is feminine

This fits the grammar, because the adjective and predicate are agreeing with the feminine noun خبرة.

In pause, ة is usually pronounced as -a:

• khibra
• ʿamaliyya
• muhimma

But when fully inflected in connected formal reading, it can sound like t before the case ending:

• khibratu
• ʿamaliyyatu
• muhimmatun

Yes, mainly in definiteness.

• خبرة عملية = practical experience / work experience in a general or indefinite sense
• الخبرة العملية = the practical experience / the work experience

In an isolated sentence like this, Arabic often uses the definite form where English might use a more general expression. So الخبرة العملية مهمة is a natural way to express Work experience is important.

Arabic and English do not always use definiteness in exactly the same way, so it is best to learn these as natural patterns rather than translate the articles word for word.

Yes, it is natural and correct.

It is a simple and common MSA structure:

• definite noun phrase
  • predicate adjective

It would fit well in contexts like:

• education
• job applications
• career advice
• formal writing

It is exactly the kind of short, clear sentence you often see in textbooks and formal Arabic.