تستلم القنصلية الاستمارة اليوم.

Good question. In the Arabic non-past tense, تـ can mark:

• you singular
• she
• sometimes other forms depending on the pattern

Here, تستلم means she receives / it receives, not you receive, because the subject is القنصلية.

Since القنصلية is a feminine singular noun, the verb agrees with it as third-person feminine singular:

• هي تستلم
• القنصلية تستلم

So the تـ here matches a feminine singular subject, not you.

It is grammatically feminine because it ends in ـة (the taa marbuuTa), which very often marks feminine nouns.

So:

• القنصلية = feminine singular
• therefore the verb is feminine singular: تستلم

Even though a consulate is an institution, Arabic still treats the noun itself according to its grammatical gender.

In this sentence, the normal interpretation is:

• تستلم = verb
• القنصلية = subject
• الاستمارة = direct object
• اليوم = time expression

So the structure is:

• Verb + Subject + Object + Time

This is a very common Arabic word order.

If full case endings were written, it would be even clearer:

• تستلمُ القنصليةُ الاستمارةَ اليومَ

Here:

• القنصليةُ has nominative ending ـُ because it is the subject
• الاستمارةَ has accusative ending ـَ because it is the direct object

In normal unvowelled writing, you usually figure this out from word order and context.

Yes. That is also correct.

Arabic often allows both:

• تستلم القنصلية الاستمارة اليوم
• القنصلية تستلم الاستمارة اليوم

The first is verb-first order, which is very common in MSA. The second is subject-first order, which can sound a bit more like emphasizing the subject or simply be a different stylistic choice.

Both mean the same thing here.

Because both nouns are definite:

• القنصلية = the consulate
• الاستمارة = the form

In Arabic, each definite noun normally takes its own الـ. Arabic does not make the second noun definite just because the first one is definite.

So you say:

• the consulate = القنصلية
• the form = الاستمارة

not just one الـ for both.

Arabic non-past verbs can refer to:

• the present
• the near future
• habitual actions

So تستلم can mean things like:

• receives
• is receiving
• sometimes will receive

In this sentence, اليوم helps anchor it to today, so the meaning is something like a present or scheduled action happening today.

Yes, it can move.

In your sentence, اليوم comes at the end as a time adverb:

• تستلم القنصلية الاستمارة اليوم

But Arabic word order is fairly flexible, so you could also see:

• اليوم تستلم القنصلية الاستمارة
• تستلم اليوم القنصلية الاستمارة

Different placements can slightly change emphasis, but the basic meaning stays the same.

The end position is very natural.

Yes. استلم commonly takes a direct object directly.

So:

• استلمَ الاستمارةَ = he received the form
• تستلم القنصلية الاستمارة = the consulate receives the form

No preposition is needed before الاستمارة.

If you want to say receive something from someone, then you can add من for the source:

• استلمتُ الاستمارةَ من القنصلية = I received the form from the consulate

It would be:

تستلمُ القنصليةُ الاستمارةَ اليومَ

Breakdown:

• تستلمُ = verb in the indicative, ending in ـُ
• القنصليةُ = subject, nominative
• الاستمارةَ = direct object, accusative
• اليومَ = adverbial time expression, usually accusative

In everyday Arabic writing, these short vowels are usually omitted.

A helpful pronunciation is:

al-qun-ṣu-liy-ya

More carefully: al-qun-su-liy-ya with an emphatic ṣ/ṣ sound if pronounced in a more classical way depending on the speaker’s rendering of the loanword.

A few useful notes:

• The ق is a q sound, not an English k
• The ال is fully pronounced here, because ق is a moon letter, not a sun letter
• The ending ـية gives a sound like -iyya

So the word is roughly al-qunṣuliyya.

Usually, if you stop at the word in normal reading, the taa marbuuTa sounds like -a:

• القنصلية → al-qunṣuliyya
• الاستمارة → al-istimaara

But if the word carries a grammatical ending in fully pronounced formal Arabic, the ـة is pronounced like t before that ending:

• القنصليةُ = al-qunṣuliyyatu
• الاستمارةَ = al-istimaarata

So:

• in pause: it sounds like -a
• in full grammatical pronunciation: it becomes -t plus the case ending

It is singular because القنصلية is a singular noun.

Even though a consulate contains many people, the grammatical subject is still one institution:

• القنصلية = singular feminine

So the verb is singular feminine:

• تستلم

If the subject were plural, the verb would change accordingly. For example:

• القنصليات تستلم الاستمارات = the consulates receive the forms

It is a verbal sentence because it begins with a verb:

• تستلم ...

In Arabic grammar, a sentence starting with a verb is called a verbal sentence, and one starting with a noun is called a nominal sentence.

So:

• تستلم القنصلية الاستمارة اليوم = verbal sentence
• القنصلية تستلم الاستمارة اليوم = starts with a noun, so many grammarians would describe it differently in structure, even though the meaning is very close

For a learner, the main point is that your original sentence is a standard verb-first sentence.