أرى الملكة في الصورة.

أرى is the 1st person singular imperfect form of the verb رأى (to see).

• أ- at the beginning marks I
• so أرى = I see / I am seeing

This verb is a little irregular, so its present-tense forms do not look completely predictable at first.

Because Arabic verbs usually already include the subject.

So:

• أرى = I see

You can add أنا if you want extra emphasis or contrast:

• أنا أرى الملكة في الصورة = I see the queen in the picture

But in a neutral sentence, أنا is often left out.

In Modern Standard Arabic, starting with the verb is very common and natural.

So:

• أرى الملكة في الصورة is a normal verb-first sentence

Arabic word order is more flexible than English. You could also say:

• أنا أرى الملكة في الصورة

That version puts more focus on the subject I.

The final ى here is alif maqṣūra, and in this verb it represents a long ā sound.

So أرى is pronounced roughly arā, not aray.

This happens because رأى is a weak/irregular verb. In the present tense, the final part of the verb changes shape:

• يرى = he sees
• أرى = I see

So the final ى is completely normal here.

Because الـ is the Arabic definite article, equivalent to the in English.

So:

• الملكة = the queen
• الصورة = the picture / the image

Arabic adds الـ directly to the noun, instead of using a separate word like English the.

الملكة is the direct object of أرى, so in full grammatical MSA it is in the accusative case.

Fully vowelled, it would be:

• الملكةَ

So the full sentence with case endings would be:

• أَرَى الْمَلِكَةَ فِي الصُّورَةِ

In normal Arabic writing, these short vowel endings are usually not written, which is why you see الملكة without the final ـَ.

In pause, الملكة is usually pronounced roughly al-malika.

The final ة is called tāʾ marbūṭa. It often sounds like:

• -a or -ah when stopping

But when full case endings are pronounced, it behaves like a t sound:

• الملكةَ = al-malikata
• الملكةُ = al-malikatu
• الملكةِ = al-malikati

So learners often hear both kinds of pronunciation, depending on how carefully the sentence is being read.

Because ص is a sun letter.

With sun letters, the ل of الـ is written but not pronounced. Instead, the next consonant is doubled.

So:

• الصورة is written with ال
• but pronounced aṣ-ṣūra, not al-ṣūra

This is a very common feature of Arabic pronunciation.

Because الصورة comes after the preposition في (in).

In Arabic, nouns after prepositions are normally in the genitive case. So in fully vowelled MSA:

• في الصورةِ

That is why the full sentence is:

• أَرَى الْمَلِكَةَ فِي الصُّورَةِ

Here:

• الملكةَ = accusative, because it is the object
• الصورةِ = genitive, because it comes after في

It would be:

• أَرَى الْمَلِكَةَ فِي الصُّورَةِ

A careful pronunciation would be roughly:

• arā al-malikata fī aṣ-ṣūrati

In everyday printed Arabic, those short vowels are usually omitted, so you normally just see:

• أرى الملكة في الصورة