المرشح واثق ودقيق في المواعيد.

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

So:

• المرشح واثق = The candidate is confident
• not The candidate confident

This is called a nominal sentence. Arabic often puts a noun first and then gives information about it without using a separate word for is in the present tense.

If you wanted the past tense, then you would use a verb, for example:

• كان المرشح واثقًا = The candidate was confident

Because واثق and دقيق are the predicate of the sentence, not attributive adjectives directly attached to the noun.

There is an important difference:

• المرشح الواثق = the confident candidate
  Here الواثق is an adjective describing the noun directly, so it matches definiteness.

• المرشح واثق = the candidate is confident
  Here واثق is part of the predicate, so it is normally indefinite.

The same applies to دقيق.

So the structure is:

• المرشح = the subject
• واثق ودقيق في المواعيد = the predicate

واثق means confident or self-assured.

In this sentence, it is being used in a general sense: the candidate is a confident person.

A learner should also know that واثق can sometimes be followed by a complement:

• واثق من نفسه = confident in himself / self-confident
• واثق من النجاح = confident of success

But in your sentence, it stands alone and simply describes the candidate as confident.

Literally:

• دقيق = precise / exact
• في المواعيد = in appointments / with times / regarding schedules

Together, دقيق في المواعيد means something like:

• precise about appointments
• careful with timing
• idiomatically, punctual

So although دقيق often means precise, when it appears with في المواعيد, the natural English meaning is punctual.

Arabic often uses the plural here because it refers to a person’s general behavior with appointments, schedules, or agreed times.

So في المواعيد does not usually mean one specific appointment. It means something broader, like:

• with appointments
• about meeting times
• in matters of punctuality

This is very natural Arabic. English often uses a singular adjective like punctual, but Arabic expresses the idea through this phrase.

و means and.

It is simply linking two predicates:

• واثق = confident
• دقيق في المواعيد = punctual

So the sentence has one subject, المرشح, and two descriptions about that subject:

• the candidate is confident
• the candidate is punctual

Arabic does not need to repeat the subject.

A careful pronunciation would be:

al-murashshaḥu wāthiqun wa-daqīqun fī al-mawāʿīdi

In normal unvowelled writing, the case endings are usually not shown, so you see:

المرشح واثق ودقيق في المواعيد

A few pronunciation notes:

• المرشح = al-murashshaḥ
  • the شّ is doubled, so hold the sh sound slightly longer
  • the final ح is a deep breathy ḥ, not ordinary English h
• واثق = wāthiq
  • ث sounds like th in think
• دقيق = daqīq
  • ق is a deep q sound, not exactly English k

In fully vocalized formal Arabic, it would normally be:

المرشحُ واثقٌ ودقيقٌ في المواعيدِ

Why?

• المرشحُ is the subject, so it is nominative
• واثقٌ and دقيقٌ are also in the nominative because they are parts of the predicate
• المواعيدِ comes after the preposition في, so it is genitive

In everyday printed Arabic, these endings are usually omitted.

You would change the noun and the adjectives to feminine:

المرشحة واثقة ودقيقة في المواعيد.

Changes:

• المرشح → المرشحة = the female candidate
• واثق → واثقة
• دقيق → دقيقة

This is normal adjective agreement in Arabic: feminine nouns take feminine adjective forms.

Yes, that is grammatically possible.

Arabic word order is somewhat flexible here, and you can reorder the predicate parts for emphasis. But the original sentence sounds very natural:

المرشح واثق ودقيق في المواعيد.

One small nuance: in the original version, في المواعيد is most naturally understood with دقيق. If you rearrange the sentence, the meaning still works, but the flow may feel slightly different.

So for a learner, the original version is a very good standard model.