هل أمي جاهزة للزيارة الآن؟

هل is a yes/no question particle. It turns the statement أمي جاهزة للزيارة الآن into a question.

So:

• أمي جاهزة للزيارة الآن = My mother is ready for the visit now.
• هل أمي جاهزة للزيارة الآن؟ = Is my mother ready for the visit now?

In Modern Standard Arabic, هل is a very common way to form this kind of question.

In Arabic, the verb to be is usually not expressed in the present tense.

So Arabic often says something that looks literally like:

• أمي جاهزة = My mother ready

but it means:

• My mother is ready

This is normal in Arabic nominal sentences.

If you wanted a different time, then Arabic would use a verb:

• كانت أمي جاهزة = My mother was ready
• ستكون أمي جاهزة = My mother will be ready

Because it describes أمي, and أمي refers to mother, which is feminine.

Arabic adjectives must agree with the noun they describe in gender and number. So:

• masculine singular: جاهز
• feminine singular: جاهزة

Examples:

• أبي جاهز = My father is ready
• أمي جاهزة = My mother is ready

Because جاهزة here is the predicate of the sentence, not an adjective inside a noun phrase.

Arabic makes an important distinction:

• أمي جاهزة = My mother is ready
  Here جاهزة is the predicate, so it is normally indefinite.

• أمي الجاهزة would mean something more like my ready mother, which is not the intended structure here and sounds odd in this context.

So even though أمي is definite, the predicate جاهزة does not take الـ.

The word comes from:

• أم = mother
• ـي = my

So:

• أم + ي = أمي = my mother

A common pronunciation is ummī.

This ـي ending is a possessive suffix. You will see it on many nouns:

• أبي = my father
• أخي = my brother
• بيتي = my house

للزيارة is made of two parts:

• لِـ = for / to
• الزيارة = the visit / the visiting

So together it means something like:

• for the visit
• for visiting

With جاهز / جاهزة, the preposition لِـ often gives the meaning ready for.

So:

• جاهزة للزيارة = ready for the visit / ready for visiting

Because it is really:

• لِ + الزيارة

When لِـ comes before a word starting with الـ, the spelling becomes للـ.

So:

• لِ + الزيارة = للزيارة

Also, because ز is a sun letter, the ل of الـ is not fully pronounced in careful reading. So the pronunciation is closer to liz-ziyārah than lil-ziyārah.

This is a common thing in Arabic spelling and pronunciation.

Yes. Arabic and English do not always use definiteness in the same way.

Here الزيارة literally looks like the visit, but depending on context English might translate it as:

• the visit
• a visit
• visiting

Arabic may use الـ where English would choose a different wording. Sometimes it refers to a specific visit already understood from context, and sometimes it is just the most natural Arabic phrasing.

Putting الآن at the end is a very natural, neutral word order in Arabic.

• هل أمي جاهزة للزيارة الآن؟

Arabic word order is somewhat flexible, so you could also say:

• هل أمي جاهزة الآن للزيارة؟

Both are possible, but the original version sounds very normal. Ending with الآن often feels like a natural place to put a time expression such as now.

In fully vocalized formal MSA, it could be written as:

هل أمي جاهزةٌ للزيارةِ الآنَ؟

Here:

• جاهزةٌ is nominative because it is the predicate
• الزيارةِ is genitive because it comes after لِـ
• الآنَ is commonly treated as an adverbial expression

In most modern reading and speaking, these case endings are usually not pronounced, so learners often hear:

هل أمي جاهزة للزيارة الآن؟

A helpful learner-style pronunciation is:

hal ummī jāhizah lil-ziyārah al-ān?

A few notes:

• هل = hal
• أمي = ummī
• جاهزة = jāhizah or simply jāhiza
• للزيارة is often heard closer to liz-ziyārah
• الآن = al-ān

So in connected careful pronunciation, you may hear something close to:

hal ummī jāhizah liz-ziyārah al-ān?

A full yes answer could be:

نعم، أمي جاهزة للزيارة الآن.
Yes, my mother is ready for the visit now.

A full no answer could be:

لا، أمي ليست جاهزة للزيارة الآن.
No, my mother is not ready for the visit now.

You can also answer briefly with just:

• نعم = yes
• لا = no

if the context is clear.

Yes, often you can.

• جاهزة = ready
• مستعدة = prepared / ready

Both can work, but there can be a slight nuance:

• جاهزة often sounds like ready and set
• مستعدة can sound a little more like prepared

So:

• هل أمي جاهزة للزيارة الآن؟
• هل أمي مستعدة للزيارة الآن؟

Both are possible in MSA, depending on the exact tone and context.