لسه ما خلص الدرس، ولسه ما وصلت صديقتي.

In this sentence, لسه means still / yet, and with negation it usually comes out as not yet.

So:

• لسه ما خلص الدرس = the lesson hasn’t finished yet
• لسه ما وصلت صديقتي = my friend hasn’t arrived yet

A useful rule:

• لسه + positive statement often means still
• لسه + ما + verb often means not ... yet

For example:

• لسه نايم = he’s still asleep
• لسه ما أكلت = I haven’t eaten yet

You may also see it spelled لسا. That is just a common spelling variation.

Because Levantine Arabic often uses the perfect/past form where English uses the present perfect.

So even though خلص and وصلت are past-form verbs, with لسه ما they mean:

• hasn’t finished yet
• hasn’t arrived yet

Arabic does not need a separate helper like has/have here.

So the pattern is very natural in Levantine:

• لسه ما خلص = hasn’t finished yet
• لسه ما وصلت = hasn’t arrived yet

This is one of the big differences from English: Arabic often expresses the idea directly with the verb itself, without an extra auxiliary.

Here ما is the negator placed before the verb.

So:

• خلص = he/it finished
• ما خلص = he/it didn’t finish / hasn’t finished

And:

• وصلت = she arrived
• ما وصلت = she didn’t arrive / hasn’t arrived

When you add لسه, the meaning becomes specifically not yet:

• لسه ما خلص = hasn’t finished yet
• لسه ما وصلت = hasn’t arrived yet

So the structure is:

لسه + ما + perfect verb

That is a very common Levantine pattern.

Because بـ usually marks the non-past / habitual / ongoing present in Levantine, but this sentence is not using that pattern.

Here the speaker is talking about whether something has happened by now. For that, Levantine normally uses:

لسه ما + perfect verb

So:

• لسه ما خلص = it hasn’t finished yet
• لسه ما وصلت = she hasn’t arrived yet

If you said:

• ما بيخلص
• ما بتوصل

that would usually sound more like a general present/habitual idea, such as:

• he/it doesn’t finish
• she doesn’t arrive

So for not yet, the sentence as given is the natural pattern.

Because the verb agrees with the subject.

• الدرس is masculine singular
• صديقتي is feminine singular

So:

• خلص الدرس = the lesson finished
  The verb is 3rd person masculine singular
• وصلت صديقتي = my friend arrived
  The verb is 3rd person feminine singular

That is why the second verb has the feminine ending -ت.

A quick comparison:

• وصل صاحبي = my male friend arrived
• وصلت صديقتي = my female friend arrived

صديقتي means my female friend.

It breaks down like this:

• صديقة = female friend
• -ي = my

So:

• صديقتي = my female friend

Important point: this tells you the friend’s gender, not the speaker’s gender.

In everyday Levantine, many speakers also use other words such as صاحبتي depending on region and context, but صديقتي is clear and correct.

Yes, you could.

Both orders are possible in Levantine:

• لسه ما خلص الدرس
• لسه الدرس ما خلص

and

• لسه ما وصلت صديقتي
• لسه صديقتي ما وصلت

The sentence you were given uses a verb-first structure after ما, which is very natural.

The subject-first versions are also natural and may feel a bit more explicit or conversational in some contexts.

So all of these are possible:

• لسه ما خلص الدرس
• لسه الدرس ما خلص
• لسه ما وصلت صديقتي
• لسه صديقتي ما وصلت

No, it is not absolutely required, but repeating it sounds very natural.

The full sentence:

لسه ما خلص الدرس، ولسه ما وصلت صديقتي

has a nice parallel structure. It clearly marks both situations as not yet.

If the context is already clear, you could say:

لسه ما خلص الدرس، وما وصلت صديقتي

and people would still understand you.

But repeating لسه is common and helps keep both clauses balanced.

Because د is a sun letter.

In pronunciation, the ل of الـ assimilates to the following sun letter. So:

• written: الدرس
• pronounced roughly: ed-dars or id-dars

The spelling stays the same, but the pronunciation changes.

So in the full sentence, many speakers would pronounce it approximately as:

lissa ma khiliṣ id-dars...

The exact vowel quality varies by region, but the important point is that the l of ال is not pronounced separately before د.

In this sentence, it means something like finished or ended, referring to the lesson itself.

So:

• خلص الدرس = the lesson finished / the lesson ended

This does not mean someone finished the lesson as an object. The subject is the lesson, so English naturally translates it as:

• the lesson has not finished yet
• or the lesson has not ended yet

Both are good ways to understand it.

Also, خلص is a very common Levantine verb with a broad range of meanings related to finish, be done, or be over, so you will see it a lot.