قريت متطلبات الشغل.

I read the job requirements.

Breakdown of قريت متطلبات الشغل.

• قرا: to read
• متطلبات الشغل: the job requirements

Questions & Answers about قريت متطلبات الشغل.

Why is it قريت and not قرأت?

Because this sentence is in Levantine Arabic, not in formal Standard Arabic.

• قرأت is the Standard Arabic form.
• قريت is a common Levantine way of writing the same idea in everyday speech.

A few things happen in dialect writing:

• spelling is less standardized than in Standard Arabic
• short vowels are usually not written
• hamza is often simplified or omitted in casual writing

So قريت is a normal colloquial spelling for the Levantine past form meaning I read.

How is the ق in قريت pronounced in Levantine?

It depends on the region and speaker.

Common possibilities in the Levant are:

• a glottal stop: roughly like 'ريت
• a true q sound: qريت
• less commonly, in some areas, it may sound closer to g

So you may hear something like:

• 'reet
• qreet

Both can be Levantine, depending on where the speaker is from.

Is قريت past tense or present tense?

It is past tense here: I read / I have read in the sense of a completed action.

In Levantine, the present would normally look different, for example: