L’ordre du jour est dans le courriel.

The apostrophe shows elision. The full article is le, but before a vowel sound, le becomes l’.

So:

• le ordre ❌
• l’ordre ✅

This is very common in French:

• l’école
• l’homme
• l’idée

So L’ordre du jour comes from Le ordre du jour, but French contracts it to sound smoother.

Because de + le becomes du in French.

So:

• de le → du
• de les → des

In l’ordre du jour, the literal structure is the order of the day.

This is a fixed expression in French, just like in English you might say the agenda without thinking about the literal words inside it.

It is a standard French expression meaning the agenda, especially for a meeting.

Literally, it is the order of the day, but in normal usage it usually refers to the list of topics to be discussed.

So in this sentence, it means the meeting agenda is in the email.

Est is the third-person singular form of être, which means to be.

The subject is l’ordre du jour, which is singular, so French uses est:

• L’ordre du jour est... = The agenda is...

If the subject were plural, you would use sont instead:

• Les documents sont dans le courriel. = The documents are in the email.

Dans usually means in or inside.

So dans le courriel means in the email.

That is the natural choice when you mean the information is contained within the email. English and French work similarly here:

• in the email → dans le courriel

Le courriel means the email, while un courriel means an email.

So the choice depends on whether the email is already known or specific:

• dans le courriel = in the email
• dans un courriel = in an email

In your sentence, le courriel suggests a specific email that both speaker and listener know about.

Also, courriel is a masculine noun, which is why the article is le.

It is correct everywhere, but usage varies by region.

• In Quebec, courriel is very common.
• In France, people often also say mail or e-mail in everyday speech.

So courriel is a good, standard, fully French word, but you may hear other versions depending on where the speaker is from.

Not very different. The structure is:

• L’ordre du jour = subject
• est = verb
• dans le courriel = prepositional phrase

So the pattern is basically:

subject + is + location

That is very close to English:

• The agenda is in the email.

So this sentence is actually quite straightforward in word order.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

lor-dr duh zhoor eh dahn luh koo-ree-el

A more accurate IPA pronunciation is:

/l‿ɔʁdʁ dy ʒuʁ ɛ dɑ̃ lə ku.ʁjɛl/

A few helpful points:

• ordre has a French r
• du has the French u sound, which is not exactly like English oo
• jour sounds like zhoor
• dans has a nasal vowel
• courriel is pronounced in three parts: cou-ri-el

Possibly, but it depends on what you mean.

L’ordre du jour is the usual expression for a meeting agenda or list of discussion items.

Agenda in French often means a planner, diary, or appointment book, not always the same thing as English agenda.

So if you mean the list of topics for a meeting, l’ordre du jour is the safer and more natural choice.