القفص قديم، مع هيك المتطوع حط الجرو فيه.

In Levantine Arabic, just like in Standard Arabic, the verb to be is usually omitted in the present tense.

So:

• القفص قديم = The cage is old

Literally, it is just the-cage old.

This is completely normal. If you wanted past tense, then a form of كان would appear:

• القفص كان قديم = The cage was old

So the missing is is not really missing; Arabic simply does not say it here.

مع هيك is a very common Levantine expression meaning:

• even so
• still
• nevertheless
• all the same
• despite that

In this sentence, it connects the two ideas:

• القفص قديم = the cage is old
• مع هيك = even so / despite that
• المتطوع حط الجرو فيه = the volunteer put the puppy in it

So مع هيك helps show contrast.

A natural English equivalent here would be Even so, the volunteer put the puppy in it.

مع هيك is mainly a Levantine colloquial expression.

In Modern Standard Arabic, you would be more likely to see things like:

• ومع ذلك
• رغم ذلك

In everyday Levantine speech, مع هيك is extremely common and natural.

So if you are learning spoken Levantine, this is a very useful phrase.

Because القفص is a masculine noun.

In Arabic, adjectives agree with the noun they describe in gender and definiteness. So:

• القفص = the cage
• قديم = old (masculine singular)

If the noun were feminine, you would usually use قديمة instead.

For example:

• الغرفة قديمة = the room is old

Here:

• القفص قديم is correct because قفص is masculine.

That is a great question. In Levantine Arabic, subject–verb–object order is very common, especially in everyday speech.

So:

• المتطوع حط الجرو فيه
• literally: the volunteer put the puppy in it

This sounds very natural in Levantine.

In Standard Arabic, verb-first order is often more common:

• وضعَ المتطوعُ الجروَ فيه

But in spoken Levantine, starting with the subject is extremely normal.

حط means put, place, or set down in Levantine Arabic.

It is one of the most common everyday verbs in speech.

Examples:

• حط الكتاب هون = Put the book here
• حط المي عالطاولة = Put the water on the table

In Standard Arabic, a more formal equivalent would often be وضع.

So in this sentence:

• المتطوع حط الجرو فيه
• The volunteer put the puppy in it

Because Arabic often attaches object pronouns directly to prepositions.

Here:

• في = in
• ـه = him / it

So:

• فيه = in it

This is extremely common in Arabic.

Other examples:

• عليه = on it / on him
• عندها = at her place / she has
• معهم = with them

So فيه is simply the preposition في plus the pronoun ـه.

Yes. In Levantine, فيه can also mean there is, depending on context and pronunciation.

For example:

• فيه مي؟ = Is there water?

But in your sentence, فيه clearly means in it, because it comes after حط الجرو and refers back to القفص.

So here the meaning is not there is, but inside it.

They all have الـ, the Arabic definite article, which usually corresponds to the in English.

So:

• القفص = the cage
• المتطوع = the volunteer
• الجرو = the puppy

This suggests we are talking about specific things already known in context.

If they were indefinite, you would usually get:

• قفص = a cage
• متطوع = a volunteer
• جرو = a puppy

In this sentence, the speaker clearly has particular ones in mind.

الجرو means the puppy.

The singular noun is:

• جرو = puppy

It usually refers to a young dog.

A learner might notice that this is not built from the same pattern as the English word dog and puppy. That is normal; Arabic often uses a completely different word for the young of an animal.

Yes, you could say something like:

• المتطوع حط الجرو بالقفص

That would mean The volunteer put the puppy in the cage.

The version with فيه is using a pronoun to refer back to the cage instead of repeating the noun.

So the difference is:

• بالقفص = in the cage
• فيه = in it

Using فيه avoids repetition and sounds very natural.

Because this is Levantine Arabic, not formal Modern Standard Arabic.

In spoken Levantine, case endings are not used the way they are in formal written Arabic. So you get simple spoken forms like:

• القفص قديم
• المتطوع حط الجرو فيه

Instead of fully inflected Standard Arabic forms.

This is one of the big differences learners notice between spoken dialect and formal Arabic.

A more Standard Arabic version might be:

• القفص قديم، ومع ذلك وضع المتطوع الجرو فيه.

Main differences:

• مع هيك becomes ومع ذلك
• حط becomes وضع

The Levantine sentence is more natural for everyday spoken conversation, while the Standard Arabic version sounds more formal and written.

In Levantine, it is commonly pronounced roughly like:

• maʿ heek

A few notes:

• مع contains the sound ʿayn, which does not exist in English
• هيك sounds like heek, with a long ee

So together:

• maʿ heek

Even if your ʿayn is not perfect yet, learners are usually understood if they approximate it at first.

Yes, exactly.

The ending ـه means it/him for a masculine singular noun.

Since القفص is masculine singular, the sentence uses:

• فيه = in it

If the noun were feminine, you would usually use:

• فيها = in it / in her

For example:

• الغرفة قديمة، وحطيت الكتاب فيها = The room is old, and I put the book in it

So the pronoun agrees with the gender of the noun it refers to.