مشرف اللعبة قرب المتاهة.

In Modern Standard Arabic, present-tense sentences often do not use an explicit verb for is/are. So a sentence that literally looks like the game supervisor near the maze is understood as The game supervisor is near the maze.

If you wanted a past-tense version, you would usually use كان: كان مشرفُ اللعبةِ قربَ المتاهةِ = The game supervisor was near the maze.

مشرف اللعبة is an iḍāfa construction, which often corresponds to X of Y in English.

• مشرف = supervisor
• اللعبة = the game

So:

• مشرف اللعبة = the supervisor of the game
• or more naturally in English, the game supervisor

This is a very common Arabic structure.

Because it is the first word in an iḍāfa construction.

In an iḍāfa:

• the first noun usually does not take الـ
• the second noun determines whether the whole phrase is definite or indefinite

Since اللعبة means the game, the whole phrase مشرف اللعبة is definite and means the game supervisor.

So Arabic says:

• مشرف اللعبة = the game supervisor

not:

• المشرف اللعبة

Here قرب means near or close to.

In practical terms, you can treat it like a word introducing a location:

• قرب المتاهة = near the maze

Grammatically, it is often described as an adverbial noun of place, but for a learner it is enough to understand that it functions much like near in this sentence.

No. In this sentence, قرب is not a verb.

Arabic writing often leaves out short vowels, so قرب can look ambiguous on the page. But here it is understood as قُرْبَ = near.

It is not being read here as:

• قَرُبَ = became near
• or قَرَّبَ = brought closer

So in this sentence, it is part of the location phrase قرب المتاهة = near the maze.

المتاهة is the noun that tells you what something is near:

• قرب المتاهة = near the maze

In fully marked MSA, المتاهة is read in the genitive after قرب, so it would be:

• المتاهةِ

So the fully vowelled phrase is:

• قُرْبَ الْمُتَاهَةِ

A careful MSA reading is:

مُشْرِفُ اللُّعْبَةِ قُرْبَ الْمُتَاهَةِ.

A rough pronunciation guide:

mushrifu l-luʿbati qurba l-mutāhati

A few notes:

• مشرفُ is nominative here
• اللعبةِ is genitive because it is the second part of the iḍāfa
• قربَ is the location expression
• المتاهةِ is genitive after قرب

In normal pausal pronunciation, the final short vowel is often dropped at the end of the sentence.

Yes. That is a very common alternative.

So you can also say:

مشرف اللعبة بالقرب من المتاهة

This also means The game supervisor is near the maze.

Compared with قرب المتاهة, بالقرب من المتاهة can sound a bit more explicit and is very common in modern usage.

Yes. مشرف is masculine singular.

If the supervisor were female, you would normally use:

مشرفة

So the sentence would become:

مشرفة اللعبة قرب المتاهة.

Yes. Arabic word order is fairly flexible.

The given sentence:

مشرف اللعبة قرب المتاهة

is a straightforward nominal sentence with the subject first and the location phrase after it.

Other orders may be possible for emphasis or style, but for a learner, this version is the clearest and most neutral.