اختي كمان صحيت بكير، بس هي مش تعبانة.

Because أخت / اخت means sister, and the ending -ي means my.

So:

• أخت = sister
• أختي / اختي = my sister

In everyday Levantine writing, people often write اختي without the hamza, even though the more formal spelling is أختي.

كمان means also, too, or as well.

So اختي كمان means my sister too or my sister also.

In this sentence, it tells you that your sister is one more person in the situation: she also woke up early.

Putting كمان after اختي is a very natural Levantine way to say my sister too / my sister also.

So:

• اختي كمان صحيت بكير = My sister also woke up early

The placement helps show that my sister is the thing being added to the conversation.

صحيت is the past-tense form meaning woke up for a feminine singular subject, so it matches اختي.

Since my sister is feminine, the verb has to agree with her.

A useful thing to know: in Arabic, this form can also look the same as I woke up, so context matters. Here, because the subject is اختي, the meaning is clearly she woke up.

بكير means early.

In Levantine, بكير is very common in everyday speech. It can work like an adverb in English early, as in:

• صحيت بكير = she woke up early

It is much more conversational than using a more formal Standard Arabic word like مبكرًا.

بس here means but.

So:

• بس هي مش تعبانة = but she isn’t tired

In Levantine Arabic, بس is a very common everyday conjunction. It can also mean only / just in other contexts, but here it clearly means but.

Yes, هي could sometimes be left out if the subject is already obvious from context, but including it is very natural here because it adds contrast.

• بس هي مش تعبانة = but she isn’t tired
• with هي, it feels a bit like but she, on the other hand, isn’t tired

So هي is not just a subject pronoun here; it helps emphasize the contrast after بس.

مش is the common Levantine negation used with adjectives and other non-verbal sentences.

Here:

• هي تعبانة = she is tired
• هي مش تعبانة = she is not tired

So مش is doing the job of not.

Depending on the region, it may be pronounced more like mish or mesh.

Because in Arabic, the verb to be is usually not expressed in the present tense.

So Arabic says literally something like:

• هي تعبانة = she tired
• هي مش تعبانة = she not tired

But in natural English, that becomes:

• she is tired
• she is not tired

This is completely normal in both Levantine and Standard Arabic.

Because تعبانة is the feminine form, and it describes my sister, who is feminine.

• تعبان = tired, masculine
• تعبانة = tired, feminine

Since the sentence is about اختي, the adjective must agree with her:

• هي تعبانة = she is tired
• هي مش تعبانة = she isn’t tired

A reasonable broad pronunciation would be:

ikhti kamān ṣiḥyit bkīr, bas hiyye mish taʿbāne

A few notes:

• خ in اختي is like kh
• ح in صحيت is a stronger, breathier h
• ع in تعبانة is a deep throat sound that English doesn’t really have
• هي is often pronounced hiyye in Levantine speech

You may hear small pronunciation differences depending on whether the speaker is Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian, or Jordanian.