رسوم التسجيل في الرسالة.

رسوم is the plural of رسم when رسم means fee / charge. In Arabic, it is very common to use the plural رسوم for things like fees, charges, or tuition.

So رسوم التسجيل literally means registration fees.
In natural English, depending on context, this might be translated as either registration fees or the registration fee.

Be careful: رسم can also mean drawing in other contexts, but here it clearly means fee.

التسجيل is a verbal noun (often called a masdar) from the verb سجّل (to register, to record, to enroll, depending on context).

So التسجيل can mean:

• registration
• enrollment
• sometimes recording

In رسوم التسجيل, it means registration or enrollment, so the whole phrase means registration fees.

This is because رسوم التسجيل is an iḍāfa construction, often called a genitive construction or noun-noun phrase.

In an iḍāfa:

• the first noun usually does not take الـ
• the second noun can be definite or indefinite

So:

• رسوم = first noun
• التسجيل = second noun

Because the second noun is التسجيل with الـ, the whole phrase becomes definite:
رسوم التسجيل = the registration fees

This is similar to:

• كتاب الطالب = the student’s book
• باب البيت = the door of the house

Yes, exactly.

رسوم التسجيل is an iḍāfa:

• رسوم = the thing being possessed or specified
• التسجيل = what it is related to

Literally, it is something like fees of registration, but in English we normally say registration fees.

A key feature of iḍāfa is that the first noun:

• does not take الـ
• does not usually take tanwīn in fully vowelled text

So this phrase follows a very common Arabic pattern.

في usually means in.

So في الرسالة means in the letter / in the message / in the thesis, depending on context.

It links the noun phrase رسوم التسجيل to الرسالة, showing location or context:

• رسوم التسجيل في الرسالة

So this means that the registration fees are in or mentioned in the رسالة.

Exactly how you translate it depends on the meaning already given in your learning material.

الرسالة can mean several things in Modern Standard Arabic, including:

• message
• letter
• epistle
• thesis / dissertation in academic contexts

So by itself, الرسالة is ambiguous. The correct meaning depends entirely on context.

For example:

• in everyday communication, it may mean message or letter
• in university contexts, it can mean thesis

This is very common in Arabic: one word can cover several related meanings, and context tells you which one is intended.

By itself, رسوم التسجيل في الرسالة looks more like a noun phrase than a complete sentence.

It does not contain a verb, and it sounds like a heading, label, or fragment such as:

• Registration fees in the message
• Registration fees in the letter
• Registration fees in the thesis

Arabic often uses short noun phrases as:

• titles
• menu items
• headings
• labels
• bullet points

So even if it is presented as a sentence, a learner should know that structurally it is more like a phrase.

الرسالة has الـ, so it means the message / the letter / the thesis, not just a message or a letter.

Arabic marks definiteness very clearly with الـ. So:

• رسالة = a message / a letter
• الرسالة = the message / the letter

This tells you that the speaker or writer has a specific رسالة in mind.

A careful pronunciation would be approximately:

rusūm at-tasjīl fī ar-risālah

A few notes:

• رسوم = rusūm
• التسجيل = at-tasjīl in connected pronunciation, because ت is a sun letter, so the l of الـ is not pronounced
• في = fī
• الرسالة = ar-risālah, because ر is also a sun letter, so again the l of الـ is not pronounced

So although the spelling shows ال, the pronunciation changes before sun letters.

If you wrote full case endings, the phrase would most likely be:

رُسُومُ التَّسْجِيلِ فِي الرِّسَالَةِ

Here is why:

• رُسُومُ: likely -u if it is standing alone as a heading or as the subject of an implied sentence
• التسجيلِ: genitive because it is the second part of an iḍāfa
• الرسالةِ: genitive because it comes after the preposition في

In normal everyday Arabic writing, these case endings are usually omitted, so learners usually see:

رسوم التسجيل في الرسالة

Yes, in isolation it could, because رسم can mean both:

• drawing
• fee

Its plural can be:

• رسوم = drawings
• رسوم = fees

But context normally makes the meaning clear. With التسجيل after it, the meaning fees is much more natural:

• رسوم التسجيل = registration fees

If it meant drawings, you would expect a very different context.