السحب من الصراف الآلي مش الي.

It is understandable as Levantine, but it does have a mixed feel.

• مش is clearly colloquial and very common in Levantine.
• السحب and الصراف الآلي are neutral/formal bank words that are also widely understood in speech.

So a native speaker would understand it, but it sounds a bit like everyday dialect plus standard banking vocabulary. That is very normal in Arabic, especially with money, government, banking, and technology terms.

Arabic often uses الـ with general activities, abstract ideas, and verbal nouns in a way that does not match English the exactly.

So السحب من الصراف الآلي can mean:

• withdrawing from the ATM
• ATM withdrawal
• the act of withdrawing from the ATM

In other words, الـ here does not necessarily make it sound overly specific. It is just how Arabic naturally packages the activity as a noun phrase.

It is a verbal noun (also called a maṣdar).

That means it comes from a verb, but it functions like a noun. Arabic uses these very often where English might use:

• a gerund: withdrawing
• a verbal noun: withdrawal

So السحب is not a finite verb like he withdraws. It is the noun form: withdrawal / withdrawing.

من means from, and it marks the source.

So:

• السحب من الصراف الآلي = withdrawal from the ATM

That is very natural Arabic. You are specifying where the money is being withdrawn from.

Compare:

• سحب من البنك = withdrawal from the bank
• سحب من الحساب = withdrawal from the account

It is the standard Arabic term for ATM.

Literally, it means something like:

• the automatic teller

A few useful notes:

• الصرّاف = teller / money-exchange machine / ATM-related term in common usage
• الآلي = automatic / automated

In everyday speech, many speakers shorten it to just الصرّاف, or they may even say ATM.

Also, because ص is a sun letter, the ل of الـ is not fully pronounced. So the beginning is pronounced more like iṣ-ṣarrāf, not al-sarrāf.

مش is the negator. In this sentence, it means not / isn’t.

Arabic often has no present-tense verb to be, so مش is what tells you the sentence is negative.

For example:

• هيدا إلي = this is mine
• هيدا مش إلي = this is not mine

So in your sentence, مش is negating the whole idea that follows.

Also, depending on region, you may hear مو instead of مش. Both are common in Levantine, though usage varies by country and speaker.

This is one of the trickiest parts, because إلي can feel a little flexible in dialect.

In many contexts, إلي means mine:

• هيدا إلي = this is mine

After مش, مش إلي often means:

• not mine

But depending on context, it can also feel more like:

• not for me
• not my thing

So the exact nuance depends on the meaning you were already given.

Without context, a listener might hear either:

• ownership: this withdrawal isn’t mine
• preference/suitability: ATM withdrawal isn’t for me

Because in Arabic, present-tense to be is usually omitted.

So a structure like:

• X مش إلي

naturally means:

• X is not mine
• or X isn’t for me, depending on context

This is completely normal Arabic grammar. You do not need to add a separate word for is in the present tense.

If you wanted the past, then Arabic would usually include a verb, for example:

• ما كان إلي = it wasn’t mine

For a learner, مش إلي is better and clearer.

Why?

• مش = not
• إلي = mine / to me / for me, depending on context

In casual typing, many native speakers skip hamzas, so الي is very common online. But for study purposes, إلي helps you recognize the word more accurately.

Yes, it is normally treated as two words here:

• مش
• إلي

It is understandable, but it is somewhat ambiguous without context.

A native speaker could understand it as:

• This ATM withdrawal isn’t mine
• or Withdrawing from an ATM isn’t for me / isn’t my thing

So the sentence works, but the listener depends on context to know which meaning is intended.

If the intended meaning is specifically about ownership/responsibility, then this sentence is fine.

If the intended meaning is more about preference or suitability, some speakers might choose a more explicit phrasing, such as:

• السحب من الصراف الآلي مو شغلتي = withdrawing from the ATM isn’t my thing
• السحب من الصراف الآلي مو مناسب إلي = withdrawing from the ATM isn’t suitable for me

So the original sentence is possible, but not maximally specific on its own.