آكل الارز والدجاج من طبق كبير وبملعقة.

In Arabic, the verb itself usually shows the subject.
آكل already means I eat / I am eating, so أنا is not required.

You can say أنا آكل الأرز والدجاج..., but adding أنا usually gives extra emphasis, contrast, or topic marking, like I’m the one eating or As for me, I eat....

So the version without أنا is completely normal and natural.

It can mean both.

In Modern Standard Arabic, the imperfect form آكل can express:

• a habitual action: I eat
• an action happening now: I am eating

Context tells you which meaning is intended.

So this sentence could mean either:

• I eat rice and chicken from a large plate and with a spoon
• I am eating rice and chicken from a large plate and with a spoon

This is because the verb comes from the root verb أكل = to eat.

The first-person imperfect form is historically like أأكل, and in normal spelling that becomes آكل with آ.

This is useful because it also helps distinguish it from:

• أكل = he ate or he has eaten (past tense)
• آكل = I eat / I am eating

So the آ is an important spelling feature here.

In careful Modern Standard Arabic, the standard spelling is الأرز.

Many learners notice that people sometimes omit hamzas in casual writing, so you may see الارز informally. But in standard written Arabic, الأرز is better.

So if you are studying MSA, it is safest to write: آكل الأرز والدجاج من طبق كبير وبملعقة.

The definite article الـ means the, but in Arabic it is also often used in a more general or class-like way.

Here, الأرز and الدجاج can mean:

• specific rice and chicken already understood from context, or
• rice and chicken as the food being eaten

Arabic often uses the definite article with foods and general categories more freely than English does.

If you wanted a more indefinite sense like some rice and chicken, you could also find forms such as: أرزًا ودجاجًا

So the definite article here is normal and natural.

In Arabic, adjectives normally come after the noun they describe.

So:

• طبق كبير = a large plate
• الطبق الكبير = the large plate

The adjective also agrees with the noun in:

• definiteness
• gender
• number
• case

Here:

• طبق is indefinite
• كبير is also indefinite

That matching is important. Arabic does not normally put the adjective before the noun the way English does.

من usually means from.

With eating, من is very natural when you mean from/out of a plate, bowl, dish, container, etc. It emphasizes the source or place you are taking the food from.

So:

• آكل من طبق كبير = I eat from a large plate

If you said في طبق كبير, that would focus more on the food being in a large plate, not so much on eating from it.

So in this sentence, من is the most natural choice.

بـ means with / by means of, and ملعقة means spoon.

So:

• بملعقة = with a spoon
• بالملعقة = with the spoon

The sentence uses the indefinite form because it means the tool in a general sense: with a spoon.

Also, the و at the beginning means and, and in Arabic it attaches directly to the next word. So:

• و + بملعقة becomes وبملعقة

This is completely normal in Arabic spelling.

Yes, full MSA grammar does have short vowels and case endings, but they are usually omitted in normal writing.

So the sentence is commonly written without them: آكل الأرز والدجاج من طبق كبير وبملعقة

In a fully vocalized form, you would expect something like: آكُلُ الأرزَ والدجاجَ من طبقٍ كبيرٍ وبِمِلعقةٍ

Here:

• the verb آكُلُ has a final -u
• direct objects like الأرزَ and الدجاجَ take accusative -a
• nouns after prepositions, like طبقٍ and ملعقةٍ, take genitive -i(n)

In everyday reading, though, these endings are usually not written.

Yes. Arabic word order is flexible.

The sentence as given starts with the verb:

• آكل الأرز والدجاج...

That is a very normal Arabic pattern.

You can also say:

• أنا آكل الأرز والدجاج من طبق كبير وبملعقة

This version is also correct, but it gives a slightly different feel. With أنا, the subject is more explicit and can sound more emphatic or more topic-focused.

So both are grammatical, but the original verb-first version is very natural in MSA.