القميص انكمش بالنشافة.

A common Levantine-style pronunciation is:

il-’amīṣ nkamaš bin-nashshāfe

A few notes:

• القميص can be pronounced il-qamīṣ or il-’amīṣ, depending on whether the speaker keeps ق as q or turns it into a glottal stop.
• انكمش is often pronounced nkamaš in fast speech, though inkamaš is also possible.
• بالنشافة is typically pronounced bin-nashshāfe. The l of ال disappears before ن, so you hear a doubled n sound.

قميص means shirt.

With ال, it becomes القميص, meaning the shirt.

So:

• قميص = a shirt / shirt
• القميص = the shirt

Also, ق is a moon letter, so the ل in ال is pronounced here. In careful pronunciation, that gives al-qamīṣ or in Levantine il-qamīṣ / il-’amīṣ.

Because this is very natural in spoken Levantine.

Levantine often likes subject-first order:

• القميص انكمش بالنشافة

This is a very normal everyday way to say it.

You could also say:

• انكمش القميص بالنشافة

But that sounds a bit more formal, literary, or like narration. For everyday speech, starting with القميص is very common.

Here انكمش means shrank or became shrunken.

It is a past tense verb, and in this sentence it matches a masculine singular subject, which is القميص.

So:

• انكمش = he shrank / it shrank / became contracted

With clothing, it is used very naturally for something that got smaller after washing or drying.

Because انكمش focuses on the change that happened to the shirt.

It does not emphasize a person doing the action. It emphasizes the result:

• the shirt ended up shrunk
• the shirt contracted

That is why it works well here. It feels similar to English the shirt shrank rather than something like someone shrank the shirt.

Because Arabic verbs already include subject information.

In انكمش, the verb itself already tells you it is 3rd person masculine singular. So Arabic does not need an extra word for it.

Since القميص is already named, the sentence is complete without any extra pronoun.

It is made of:

• بـ = with / in / by / using
• الـ = the
• نشافة = dryer

So بالنشافة literally means something like:

• in the dryer
• with the dryer
• through the dryer

In this sentence, it means the shrinking happened in / because of the dryer.

In Levantine, بـ is very flexible and often used where English would say in, with, by, or using.

So بالنشافة is very natural.

There is a small nuance:

• بالنشافة often sounds like the dryer is the means or cause of what happened
• في النشافة emphasizes physical location more strongly, as in inside the dryer

Both can make sense, but بالنشافة is very idiomatic here.

Yes. In Levantine, نشافة usually means a clothes dryer.

It comes from the idea of drying, from the root related to dryness.

In everyday speech, نشافة is a very normal household word. A more formal or more standard-Arabic phrasing might use another term, but نشافة is exactly the kind of word you would expect in spoken Levantine.

Because of two things happening in pronunciation:

1. The preposition بـ is usually pronounced bi-
2. The ل of ال disappears before ن, because ن is a sun letter

So:

• written: بالنشافة
• spoken: bin-nashshāfe

Also, many speakers pronounce نشافة with a strong shsh sound, even if the spelling does not always show a written shadda in casual writing.

It is very natural for Levantine, but parts of it are also widely understandable outside Levantine.

• القميص is common Arabic
• انكمش also exists in standard Arabic
• نشافة feels more everyday and colloquial

So the sentence is not extremely slangy. It is a normal, understandable spoken-style sentence, especially in the Levant.

Because the subject القميص is masculine singular.

With a masculine singular subject, the past tense form is:

• انكمش

If the subject were feminine, you would add -ت:

• البلوزة انكمشت = the blouse shrank

So the verb form is matching the gender and number of the subject.

A very natural negated version is:

القميص ما انكمش بالنشافة

That means the shirt didn’t shrink in the dryer.

In Levantine, ما is commonly used to negate past-tense verbs like this.