القميص حساس وصوفي.

In Arabic, the present tense often has no written or spoken verb for is/are in simple statements like this.

So:

القميص حساس وصوفي

literally looks like:

the shirt delicate and woolen

but it means:

The shirt is delicate and woolen.

This is normal in both Standard Arabic and Levantine-style speech. If you wanted was, then you would usually add a past-tense verb such as كان.

Arabic normally puts descriptive words after the noun.

So instead of English-style delicate shirt, Arabic uses the order:

shirt + delicate

In this sentence, though, the structure is even more specifically:

subject + predicate

So:

• القميص = the shirt
• حساس وصوفي = delicate and woolen

That gives the full meaning The shirt is delicate and woolen.

Because here they are predicate adjectives, not part of one long noun phrase.

Compare these:

• القميص حساس وصوفي = The shirt is delicate and woolen
• القميص الحساس الصوفي = the delicate woolen shirt

In the first sentence, القميص is the subject, and حساس and صوفي are the things being said about it, so they stay indefinite.

In the second example, all the words are inside one noun phrase, so the adjectives match the noun in definiteness and also take ال.

حساس literally means sensitive, but with clothing or fabric it often means something like:

• delicate
• easily damaged
• needs careful handling

So in this sentence, it probably means the shirt is made of a material that should be treated gently.

Here صوفي means woolen or made of wool.

It comes from صوف, which means wool.

A useful thing to know is that صوفي can also mean Sufi in religious or cultural contexts. But with القميص, the meaning is clearly woolen.

Because و means and, and in Arabic it is written attached to the following word.

So:

• و + صوفي
• written together as وصوفي

This is completely normal. Arabic does this with several short particles.

Yes. قميص is masculine singular, so the adjectives are also masculine singular:

• حساس
• صوفي

If the noun were feminine singular, the adjectives would change too. For example:

• التنورة حساسة وصوفية
• The skirt is delicate and woolen

So agreement still matters, even though these adjectives are predicates.

A careful Standard-Arabic-style pronunciation would be something like:

al-qamīṣ ḥassās wa ṣūfī

In Levantine, the pronunciation often shifts. Many speakers would say something close to:

el-’amīs ḥassās w ṣūfi

A few notes:

• ال often sounds like el- or il-
• ق is often pronounced as a glottal stop in many urban Levantine accents
• و is often just w

Pronunciation varies by region, so you may hear slightly different versions.

The spelling is perfectly normal Arabic and looks very natural in a Standard-Arabic-style written form.

In spoken Levantine, the structure is also natural: the shirt + adjective + and + adjective. What changes more in Levantine is usually the pronunciation, not the basic grammar here.

So a Levantine speaker could absolutely say this, even though the written form looks neutral and standard.

Yes. You could also say:

القميص صوفي وحساس

That would still mean The shirt is woolen and delicate.

The difference is mainly one of focus or style. The first adjective often feels a bit more prominent, so the speaker may put first whichever quality they want to emphasize.

It would be:

القَميصُ حَسّاسٌ وصوفيٌّ

This shows the full Standard Arabic endings. In everyday writing, these short vowels are usually omitted, and in Levantine speech, those Standard case endings are not normally pronounced.

So learners often see the simpler written form:

القميص حساس وصوفي

and that is completely normal.