فرزت الملابس.

I sorted the clothes.

Breakdown of فرزت الملابس.

• ملابس: clothes
• فرز: to sort

Questions & Answers about فرزت الملابس.

How do I pronounce فرزت الملابس in Levantine Arabic?

A common Levantine pronunciation is farazet il-malābes.

• فرزت → farazet
• الملابس → il-malābes

A few notes:

• The الـ in Levantine is usually pronounced il- or el-
• م is a moon letter, so the l sound stays: il-malābes, not a doubled m
• ملابس means clothes/clothing

Why doesn’t the spelling show all the vowels?

Because normal Arabic writing usually leaves out short vowels.

So فرزت only shows the consonant skeleton f-r-z-t. As a learner, you usually figure out the pronunciation from:

• context
• vocabulary you already know
• grammar
• hearing the word in speech

In Levantine, this form is commonly read as farazet.

What does فرزت mean grammatically?

فرزت is the past tense of the verb فرز, which means to sort, to separate, or to classify.

So the sentence is using a completed action:

• فرزت = sorted

The base verb is:

• فرز = he sorted / the dictionary form you’ll often recognize as the verb stem

Adding -ت gives a past-tense form with certain subjects.