يجلب قداحة لكي يشعل نار المخيم.

A fully vocalized version would be:

يَجْلِبُ قَدّاحَةً لِكَيْ يُشْعِلَ نارَ المُخَيَّمِ

A careful pronunciation is roughly:

yajlibu qaddāḥatan likay yushʿila nāra al-mukhayyami

A few notes:

• يجلبُ = he brings
• قدّاحةً = a lighter
• لكي = so that / in order to
• يُشْعِلَ = he may light / so that he lights
• نارَ المخيمِ = the campfire or literally the fire of the camp

Because the verb already includes the subject.

• يجلب by itself means he brings / he is bringing
• يشعل by itself means he lights / he is lighting

In Arabic, subject pronouns are often built into the verb form, so Arabic does not need a separate هو here.

You could add هو for emphasis, but normally it would be omitted.

That is a very common Arabic sentence pattern.

Arabic often uses a verb-first order, especially in straightforward narration:

• يجلب قداحة... = He brings a lighter...

This is completely normal in MSA. Arabic can also use a subject-first order, but verb-first is very common and often sounds more neutral or narrative.

For example:

• يجلب الرجل قداحة = The man brings a lighter
• الرجل يجلب قداحة = The man is bringing a lighter / The man brings a lighter

Both are possible, but the first style is very typical.

يجلب comes from the verb جلب, which means to bring or to fetch.

In this sentence, يجلب is in the imperfect form, which can mean different things depending on context, such as:

• he brings
• he is bringing
• sometimes even he will bring

Here, the natural sense is he brings or he is bringing.

So Arabic imperfect verbs are not tied to just one English tense.

Because it means a lighter, not the lighter.

So:

• قداحة = a lighter
• القداحة = the lighter

It is the direct object of يجلب, and in fully vocalized Arabic it would be قدّاحةً with accusative tanwīn.

In normal Arabic writing, these case endings are usually not written, so you just see قداحة.

لكي means so that, in order to, or so as to.

It introduces a purpose clause. In other words, it explains why he brings the lighter:

• يجلب قداحة = He brings a lighter
• لكي يشعل نار المخيم = in order to light the campfire

So the full idea is:

• He brings a lighter for the purpose of lighting the campfire

This is a very common structure in MSA.

Yes. لكي normally puts the following imperfect verb into the subjunctive.

So the fully vocalized form is:

• يُشْعِلُ = indicative
• يُشْعِلَ = subjunctive

After لكي, the correct full form is:

• لِكَيْ يُشْعِلَ

In ordinary unvowelled writing, both forms look the same:

• يشعل

So the grammar is there, but the short vowel at the end is simply not written.

Because this is an iḍāfa structure, often called a construct phrase.

نار المخيم literally means:

• fire of the camp

In English, that often becomes:

• the campfire
• or the fire of the camp

In an iḍāfa:

1. The first noun usually does not take ال
2. The second noun can make the whole phrase definite if it is definite

So:

• نار مخيم = a camp’s fire / a campfire in an indefinite sense
• نار المخيم = the campfire / the fire of the camp

You do not say النار المخيم for this meaning.

Because it is the second word in an iḍāfa, and the second noun is in the genitive case.

In full vocalization:

• نارَ = accusative, because it is the object of يشعل
• المخيَّمِ = genitive, because it is the second term of the iḍāfa

So the full phrase is:

• نارَ المخيمِ

Again, in ordinary writing these final case vowels are usually omitted.

In fully vocalized MSA:

يَجْلِبُ قَدّاحَةً لِكَيْ يُشْعِلَ نارَ المُخَيَّمِ

Here is the grammar:

• يجلبُ: indicative imperfect verb
• قدّاحةً: accusative, direct object of يجلب
• يُشْعِلَ: subjunctive imperfect after لكي
• نارَ: accusative, direct object of يشعل
• المخيَّمِ: genitive, because it is the second noun in an iḍāfa

This is a good example of how much Arabic grammar is often hidden in normal unvowelled text.

Yes, قدّاحة is a correct MSA word for lighter.

Another very common word, especially in everyday speech, is:

• ولاعة

Both can refer to a cigarette lighter. In MSA, قدّاحة is perfectly fine.

A learner may notice that in many real-life conversations, speakers prefer regional everyday words, but for Modern Standard Arabic, قدّاحة is good and standard.

Yes. In natural English, the smoothest translation is often:

• He brings a lighter to light the campfire
• He brings a lighter in order to light the campfire

Arabic uses لكي + imperfect verb, while English often uses the infinitive to light.

So the structures are different, but the meaning is the same.