في هذا المطعم الدجاج لذيذ، لكنه أغلى من السمك.

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Breakdown of في هذا المطعم الدجاج لذيذ، لكنه أغلى من السمك.

• في: in
• مطعم: restaurant
• من: than

Questions & Answers about في هذا المطعم الدجاج لذيذ، لكنه أغلى من السمك.

Why does the sentence start with في هذا المطعم?

في هذا المطعم means in this restaurant.

Arabic often puts a place phrase like this at the beginning to set the scene first. So the sentence is structured a bit like:

• In this restaurant, the chicken is delicious, but it is more expensive than the fish.

This fronting is very natural in Arabic. You could also sometimes rearrange parts, but beginning with the location is common and clear.

Why is هذا before المطعم, when adjectives usually come after nouns in Arabic?

Because هذا is a demonstrative (this), not a regular adjective.

In Arabic, demonstratives like هذا (this, masculine singular) come before the noun:

• هذا المطعم = this restaurant
• هذه السيارة = this car

By contrast, normal descriptive adjectives come after the noun:

• مطعم لذيذ = a delicious restaurant
• الطعام اللذيذ = the delicious food

So هذا المطعم follows the normal pattern for demonstratives.

Why is there no word for is in الدجاج لذيذ?

In the present tense, Arabic usually does not use a word equivalent to in simple sentences like this.