بكرا عندها امتحان، وهي عم تدرس هلا.

بكرا means tomorrow in Levantine Arabic.

It comes first to set the time frame right away. Arabic often puts time expressions early in the sentence, especially when they are important to the message.

So:

• بكرا عندها امتحان = Tomorrow she has an exam

You could also hear عندها امتحان بكرا, but starting with بكرا is very natural.

Because بكرا already makes the time future.

In Levantine, if the sentence already clearly says tomorrow, speakers often do not need an extra future marker. The idea of the future is understood from the time word itself.

So this is completely natural:

• بكرا عندها امتحان

You might sometimes hear future marking in other sentences, but here it would usually be unnecessary.

This is a very common Arabic structure.

عند literally has the basic sense of at or with, and when you add a pronoun suffix, it can express possession:

• عندي = I have
• عندك = you have
• عندها = she has
• عنده = he has

So:

• عندها امتحان literally is something like at her, an exam
• natural English meaning: she has an exam

This structure is used a lot in Levantine for things like possessions, responsibilities, or scheduled events:

• عندي شغل = I have work
• عندهم سيارة = they have a car

Because امتحان here is indefinite, meaning an exam rather than the exam.

In Arabic, indefiniteness is often shown simply by the absence of الـ:

• امتحان = an exam
• الامتحان = the exam

So عندها امتحان means she has an exam.

If the speaker and listener were talking about one specific known exam, then الامتحان could be used in some contexts.

و means and.

It connects the two parts of the sentence:

• بكرا عندها امتحان، وهي عم تدرس هلا
• She has an exam tomorrow, and she is studying now

It is just a normal coordinating conjunction.

Not always.

هي means she, and Arabic often allows subject pronouns to be omitted when the verb already makes the subject clear.

But here هي is very natural because:

1. it clearly introduces the second clause
2. it makes the sentence flow nicely after the pause
3. it removes any ambiguity

So:

• وهي عم تدرس هلا = very natural
• وعم تدرس هلا = also possible in some contexts, depending on style and context

Including هي makes the sentence especially clear.

عم is a very important Levantine feature. It marks an action as ongoing, similar to English be + -ing.

So:

• عم تدرس = she is studying

Without عم, the verb could sound more general, depending on dialect and context. With عم, the sentence clearly means that the action is happening right now or around now.

That is why:

• هي عم تدرس هلا = She is studying now

Because in Arabic, present-tense sentences usually do not use a separate present-tense verb to be the way English does.

English needs:

• she is studying

But Arabic normally says the equivalent of:

• she studying now

The progressive meaning is carried by عم plus the verb, so a separate word for is is not needed.

This is normal in both colloquial Arabic and many other Arabic sentence types.

The verb comes from the root related to studying, and تدرس is the present-tense form that can match a feminine singular subject.

With هي, the meaning is clearly:

• هي تدرس = she studies
• هي عم تدرس = she is studying

A useful thing to know is that تدرس by itself can also match you study when speaking to one female, depending on context. That is one reason why having هي in the sentence is helpful: it makes it clearly she.

For comparison:

• هو عم يدرس = he is studying
• هي عم تدرس = she is studying

Yes. هلا means now or right now.

So:

• هي عم تدرس هلا = She is studying now

It is a very common Levantine word. Depending on region, you may also see or hear related forms such as هلأ or هلق.

You do not always need it, but it is very natural.

• عم tells you the action is in progress
• هلا adds the specific time idea of now / at this moment

So the two together give a very clear meaning:

• هي عم تدرس هلا = She is studying now

If you said just هي عم تدرس, it would still mean she is studying, but هلا makes the timing more explicit.

A simple transliteration would be:

bukra ʿinda-ha imtiḥān, w hiyye ʿam tedros halla

A few notes:

• بكرا = bukra
• عندها = ʿinda-ha
• امتحان = imtiḥān
• وهي = w hiyye
• عم = ʿam
• تدرس = tedros
• هلا = halla

Transliteration can vary a lot, especially for Levantine pronunciation, so you may see slightly different spellings in Latin letters.