في الشهر القادم لدينا رحلة إلى مدينة قريبة من النهر.

Yes. في الشهر القادم literally means in the coming month, and in natural English that is usually next month.

Breakdown:

• في = in
• الشهر = the month
• القادم = coming / القادم = next, upcoming

So the phrase means in the next month or more naturally next month.

Arabic often uses a prepositional time phrase like this at the beginning of a sentence to set the time frame first.

In Arabic, there is no everyday verb that works exactly like the English verb to have in sentences like this.

Instead, Arabic commonly expresses possession with a phrase such as:

• لديّ / لدينا
• عندي / عندنا

So:

• لدينا رحلة = we have a trip

Literally, لدينا is something like with us / in our possession / at our disposal, but in normal translation it means we have.

This is a very common pattern in Arabic.

Yes, عندنا رحلة would also be understandable and natural in many contexts.

A rough difference:

• عندنا is very common and conversational
• لدينا is often felt to be a bit more formal or more standard, so it fits Modern Standard Arabic well

So in MSA, لدينا رحلة is an excellent choice.

رحلة means a trip, while الرحلة means the trip.

Here, رحلة is indefinite because the sentence is introducing it as new information:

• لدينا رحلة = we have a trip

If the speaker and listener already knew exactly which trip was being discussed, then الرحلة might be used in another context.

So the indefinite form is very natural here.

إلى means to.

So:

• رحلة إلى مدينة = a trip to a city

This is the normal preposition used for movement toward a destination.

Examples:

• الذهاب إلى المدرسة = going to school
• السفر إلى مصر = traveling to Egypt

Because مدينة is a feminine singular noun, and the adjective must agree with it.

So:

• مدينة = feminine singular
• قريبة = feminine singular adjective meaning near / nearby

Arabic adjectives agree with the noun they describe in:

• gender
• number
• definiteness
• case

That is why قريبة has the feminine ending ـة.

It is indefinite because the noun it describes, مدينة, is also indefinite.

In Arabic, adjectives agree with the noun in definiteness:

• مدينة قريبة = a nearby city
• المدينة القريبة = the nearby city

So here:

• مدينة = a city
• قريبة = nearby, also indefinite to match

This is a very important rule in Arabic.

Yes, من usually means from, but after قريب / قريبة it often corresponds to English to in the sense of nearness.

So:

• قريبة من النهر = near the river

Literally, it may seem like close from the river, but that is just how Arabic expresses it. In English we say:

• close to the river
• near the river

In Arabic, the normal pattern is:

• قريب من
• بعيد من is less standard in MSA than بعيد عن, so be careful not to assume all adjectives behave the same way

For this sentence, قريبة من النهر is exactly right.

النهر means the river, while نهر means a river.

The sentence says:

• مدينة قريبة من النهر = a city near the river

Using النهر suggests a specific river is meant, or at least a river understood in context.

If you said من نهر, it would mean near a river, which is less specific.

Both are grammatically possible, but they mean slightly different things.

The sentence is:

في الشهر القادم لدينا رحلة إلى مدينة قريبة من النهر.

A helpful breakdown is:

• في الشهر القادم = time phrase: next month
• لدينا = we have
• رحلة = a trip
• إلى مدينة قريبة من النهر = to a city near the river

So the whole structure is roughly:

[Time] + [we have] + [thing possessed] + [destination phrase]

Arabic is flexible with word order, and it is very common to place a time expression at the beginning.

A fully vocalized version could be written as:

فِي الشَّهْرِ الْقَادِمِ لَدَيْنَا رِحْلَةٌ إِلَى مَدِينَةٍ قَرِيبَةٍ مِنَ النَّهْرِ.

Here is why the endings look like that:

• الشهرِ after في is genitive
• القادمِ matches الشهرِ
• رحلةٌ is nominative because it functions as the main noun in the possession structure
• مدينةٍ after إلى is genitive
• قريبةٍ matches مدينةٍ
• النهرِ after من is genitive

In normal modern writing, these case endings are usually not written, but they still matter in formal grammar.

Yes. Both are reasonable, depending on what part you want to emphasize.

However, the Arabic sentence specifically says:

• في الشهر القادم = next month
• مدينة قريبة من النهر = a city near the river

So the most direct translation keeps both ideas:

• Next month we have a trip to a city near the river.

If you say a nearby city, that loses the specific detail that the city is near the river, not just near us or near some general location.

All of these can work depending on the translation style.

• مدينة قريبة = a near city is not natural English
• better English options are:
  • a nearby city
  • a city close to the river
  • a city near the river

Because the phrase continues with من النهر, the best translation is usually:

• a city near the river or
• a city close to the river

So قريبة by itself can mean near / close / nearby, but the full phrase determines the most natural English wording.