Questions & Answers about هاي بطاقة البنك تبعي.
هاي means this. In Levantine, it is a common feminine singular demonstrative, so it matches بطاقة because بطاقة is feminine.
You may also hear regional variants such as هيدي with the same meaning.
Because بطاقة is a feminine noun. In Arabic, nouns have grammatical gender, and words like this often agree with the noun they describe.
So:
- هاي بطاقة = this card
- not هاد بطاقة
A good clue is that many nouns ending in ة are feminine, and بطاقة is one of them.
In Arabic, present-tense sentences like This is my bank card usually do not use an explicit verb for is.
So هاي بطاقة البنك تبعي literally looks something like:
this + bank card + mine
But in natural English, it means This is my bank card.
This is very normal in both spoken Levantine and Standard Arabic.
This is a very common Arabic structure called a (often called ).