التلفاز في الغرفة.

In Arabic, present-tense sentences like The television is in the room usually do not use a separate word for is.

So:

• التلفاز = the television
• في الغرفة = in the room

Together, they naturally mean The television is in the room.

This is called a nominal sentence in Arabic.
If you wanted the past or future, then Arabic would use other forms, for example:

• كان التلفاز في الغرفة = The television was in the room
• سيكون التلفاز في الغرفة = The television will be in the room

التلفاز means the television or the TV.

It comes from:

• تلفاز = television / TV
• الـ = the

So التلفاز literally means the television.

In Modern Standard Arabic, تلفاز is a standard word. You may also see or hear:

• التلفزيون

This is also very common, especially in speech and everyday usage. Both refer to a television.

في is a very common preposition meaning in.

Examples:

• في البيت = in the house
• في المدرسة = in the school
• في الغرفة = in the room

So in your sentence, في الغرفة means in the room.

The prefix الـ is the Arabic definite article, meaning the.

So:

• غرفة = a room / room
• الغرفة = the room

Because the sentence means the room, Arabic uses الـ.

Yes, this part is quite similar to English.

Arabic often uses:

• preposition + noun

So:

• في الغرفة = in the room
• على الطاولة = on the table
• تحت السرير = under the bed

Here, في comes first, then the place noun الغرفة.

In fully vocalized Arabic, the sentence would be:

التلفازُ في الغرفةِ

The endings are:

• التلفازُ with ـُ because it is the subject/topic of the nominal sentence
• الغرفةِ with ـِ because it comes after the preposition في

However, in normal Arabic writing, these short vowels are usually not written, so you normally just see:

التلفاز في الغرفة

This is a very good question, because the ل of الـ is not always pronounced.

In التلفاز, the first letter after الـ is ت, and ت is a sun letter. That means the ل sound assimilates.

So التلفاز is pronounced approximately:

at-tilfāz

not al-tilfāz

But in الغرفة, the first letter after الـ is غ, which is a moon letter, so the ل is pronounced:

al-ghurfah

So the whole sentence is approximately:

at-tilfāzu fī al-ghurfati
or without case endings in ordinary pronunciation:
at-tilfāz fī al-ghurfah

Because this sentence does not mean There is a television in the room in the usual indefinite sense. It means The television is in the room.

Arabic distinguishes between:

• التلفاز في الغرفة = The television is in the room
• هناك تلفاز في الغرفة or simply في الغرفة تلفاز = There is a television in the room

So your sentence is about a specific, known television, not introducing a new one.

Sometimes, yes, but the meaning or emphasis may change.

The basic sentence:

• التلفاز في الغرفة = The television is in the room

If you start with the prepositional phrase:

• في الغرفة التلفاز

this is less neutral and may sound marked or context-dependent, as if emphasizing in the room.

A more common sentence for There is a television in the room would be:

• في الغرفة تلفاز

So word order matters, especially for nuance.

In Modern Standard Arabic, a common way is to use ليس:

• التلفاز ليس في الغرفة = The television is not in the room

You can think of ليس as the usual negation for this kind of present-time nominal sentence.

Yes, غرفة is feminine.

You can often tell because it ends in ة (the tāʾ marbūṭah):

• غرفة = room

In this sentence, the femininity does not change much, because there is no adjective or verb agreeing with it. But in other sentences it will matter.

For example:

• الغرفة كبيرة = The room is big

Here كبيرة is feminine to match الغرفة.

The fully vocalized form is:

التِّلْفَازُ فِي الْغُرْفَةِ

A simpler learner-friendly transliteration is:

at-tilfāzu fī al-ghurfati

This shows:

• assimilation in التلفاز → at-
• فِي = fī
• genitive ending after في in الغرفةِ

In everyday Arabic texts, these vowel marks are usually omitted, so you normally just read:

التلفاز في الغرفة