عيلتي كبيرة.

A common Levantine pronunciation is roughly ʿeelti kbiire, though the exact vowels can vary by region.

A few helpful notes:

• ع is the letter ʿayn. It’s a deep throat sound that English doesn’t really have.
• عيلتي is often something like ʿeelti or ʿaylti, depending on the speaker.
• كبيرة in Levantine is usually kbiire, not kabeera.

If your ع is not perfect yet, that’s normal. Learners usually focus first on getting the rest of the word clear.

It breaks down into:

• عيلة = family
• -ي = my

So عيلتي means my family.

This -ي ending is a very common way to show possession in Arabic:

• بيتي = my house
• سيارتي = my car
• عيلتي = my family

Because the base word عيلة ends in the feminine ending ة.

When a word with ة takes a suffix like -ي for my, that ending often shows up as -t- before the suffix:

• عيلة → عيلتي
• سيارة → سيارتي
• مدرسة → مدرستي

So the t is not random; it comes from the feminine ending.

In Arabic, present-tense sentences like this usually do not use a separate word for is.

So:

• عيلتي كبيرة = My family is big

This is completely normal Arabic structure.

If you want other tenses, then a verb can appear:

• كانت عيلتي كبيرة = my family was big
• رح تكون عيلتي كبيرة = my family will be big

But in the present tense, no is is needed.

Because عيلة is a grammatically feminine singular noun, and the adjective has to agree with it.

So:

• عيلة = feminine singular
• كبيرة = feminine singular

That agreement is why you get كبيرة, not كبير.

Even though a family contains many people, the word family itself is still treated as one singular noun.

Because in Arabic, descriptive words normally come after the noun, not before it.

Also, in a sentence like this, the normal order is:

• subject + description

So:

• عيلتي كبيرة = my family is big

This is the natural word order.

Because here كبيرة is the predicate of the sentence, not part of a noun phrase.

So:

• عيلتي كبيرة = My family is big
• عيلتي الكبيرة = my big family

That’s a very important difference.

Without الـ, it works as big in the sentence. With الـ, it becomes the big, which turns it into part of a noun phrase instead.

Because Levantine Arabic often reduces or drops short vowels that are pronounced in more formal Arabic.

So compared with MSA:

• MSA: kabīra
• Levantine: kbīre

Two common changes are happening:

• the short a after k gets dropped
• the final feminine ending often sounds like -e in Levantine, not -a

That kind of sound change is very common in spoken dialects.

It is very natural in Levantine.

In more formal Arabic, you would more often see:

• عائلتي كبيرة

The main difference is the word for family:

• Levantine everyday speech: عيلة
• Formal/MSA: عائلة

So عيلتي كبيرة sounds colloquial and natural in Levantine conversation.

Yes.

Some common possibilities are:

• عيلتي = my family, very common in Levantine speech
• عائلتي = my family, more formal or closer to MSA
• أسرتي = my family, formal/literary
• أهلي = my family / my folks / my people, very common in speech but slightly different in nuance

So for everyday Levantine, عيلتي is a very good, natural choice.