الممرض شاف الدم.

A common Levantine pronunciation is:

il-mmaraḍ sheef id-damm or el-mmaraḍ shāf id-damm

A few notes:

• الممرض = il-mmaraḍ / el-mmaraḍ
• شاف = shāf or sometimes sheef depending on region
• الدم = id-damm / ed-damm

The exact vowels can vary by country and city, but that is the general idea.

Yes. الممرض means the male nurse or the nurse if the nurse is male.

• ممرض = nurse, male nurse
• الممرض = the nurse, the male nurse

The feminine form is:

• ممرضة = nurse, female nurse
• الممرضة = the female nurse

So if you wanted The nurse saw the blood with a female nurse, you would say:

الممرضة شافت الدم

Because both nouns are definite:

• الممرض = the nurse
• الدم = the blood

In Arabic, الـ is the definite article, equivalent to English the.

So:

• ممرض = a nurse
• الممرض = the nurse

and

• دم = blood
• الدم = the blood

In real usage, الدم can also be used where English would simply say blood, especially when talking about blood that is visible or specific in the situation.

Because د is a sun letter.

When الـ comes before a sun letter, the l sound is not pronounced. Instead, the following consonant is doubled.

So:

• written: الدم
• pronounced: ad-damm / id-damm / ed-damm depending on dialect

This is called assimilation of the definite article.

By contrast, with a moon letter, the l is pronounced normally.

شاف is the past tense: he saw.

So the sentence means:

• الممرض شاف الدم = The nurse saw the blood

In Levantine, شاف is the normal everyday verb for saw.

Some related forms:

• شاف = he saw
• شافت = she saw
• شفت = I saw / you saw, depending on context
• شافوا = they saw

It is very common in Levantine and other spoken dialects.

In Modern Standard Arabic, the usual verb is رأى for to see. In everyday Levantine speech, people usually use شاف.

So:

• Levantine: شاف
• MSA: usually رأى

That means this sentence is very natural for Levantine because of the verb شاف, even though the spelling of the nouns looks the same as in Standard Arabic.

Because this is spoken Levantine, not fully inflected Modern Standard Arabic.

In MSA, words can have case endings in careful pronunciation. In Levantine, those endings are normally dropped.

So in speech you simply get:

• الممرض شاف الدم

not something like a fully case-marked formal version.

This is one of the big differences between spoken Arabic and Standard Arabic.

Yes, this word order is very normal in Levantine.

This sentence uses:

• Subject + Verb + Object
• الممرض شاف الدم
• The nurse saw the blood

In Levantine, SVO word order is very common.

You can also hear verb-first order in some contexts, but SVO is extremely natural in everyday speech.

Not exactly as written.

Because of الـ, the sentence specifically says:

• الممرض = the nurse
• الدم = the blood

If you want a nurse saw blood, you would more likely say:

• ممرض شاف دم

That said, Arabic and English do not always match perfectly in how definiteness is used, especially with mass nouns like blood. In context, الدم may sound natural even where English would not necessarily say the blood.

You usually add ما before the verb:

• الممرض ما شاف الدم
• The nurse didn’t see the blood

This is the most common straightforward negation pattern in Levantine for this kind of sentence.

You can attach an object pronoun to the verb:

• الممرض شافه = The nurse saw it
  if it refers to a masculine noun

Since دم is masculine, شافه works for saw it referring to blood.

Breakdown:

• شاف = saw
• ـه = him / it

So:

• شاف الدم = he saw the blood
• شافه = he saw it

No. Normally, Arabic is written without short vowels.

So learners have to know or learn the pronunciation from context and exposure.

For example:

• شاف is written with the consonants and long vowel letters, but not every vowel sound is explicitly marked
• الممرض also does not show all the short vowels in normal writing

That is why beginners often need a transliteration or audio at first.

A natural yes/no question in Levantine is:

• شاف الممرض الدم؟
• or الممرض شاف الدم؟

Often the main difference is just intonation.

In everyday speech, Levantine frequently forms yes/no questions without changing the words very much. The voice simply rises at the end.