هاد المحل قريب من البنك.

Yes. هاد means this in Levantine Arabic.

A few notes:

• In many Levantine varieties, هاد is very common before a noun:
  • هاد المحل = this shop / this place
• You may also hear related forms depending on region and speaker, such as:
  • هيدا (very common in Lebanese and Syrian speech)
  • هاد / هالـ... in other Levantine varieties

So هاد المحل is a normal colloquial Levantine structure.

Because هاد is pointing to a specific thing: this shop/place.

• محل = a shop, a place
• هاد المحل = this shop/place

In other words, هاد makes the noun specific and visible in the conversation, just like this in English.

المحل literally comes from محل, which can mean:

• shop
• store
• place
• sometimes business / location, depending on context

In everyday Levantine, محل is very common and flexible. So in this sentence it could mean:

• this shop
• this place
• this store

The exact English word depends on context.

Because in Arabic, especially in the present tense, you usually do not use a separate word for is / are.

So:

• هاد المحل قريب من البنك literally looks like:
• this shop near from the bank

But naturally it means:

• This shop is near the bank

This is completely normal in Arabic. The present-tense to be is usually omitted.

قريب means near / close.

Here it is functioning like a predicate adjective:

• المحل قريب = the shop is near / close

Then you add what it is near to:

• قريب من البنك = near the bank

So the pattern is:

• [noun] + قريب + من + [place]

Examples:

• البيت قريب من الجامعة = the house is near the university
• المطعم قريب من هون = the restaurant is near here

In this sentence, من means from, but after قريب it corresponds to English to or near in meaning.

So:

• قريب من البنك = near the bank
• literally: close from the bank

This is just how Arabic expresses the idea. After قريب, Arabic normally uses من.

Because it means the bank, not just a bank.

• بنك = a bank
• البنك = the bank

Since the sentence refers to a specific bank, Arabic uses the definite article الـ.

This is very common after location expressions:

• جنب البيت = next to the house
• ورا المدرسة = behind the school
• قريب من البنك = near the bank

No, بنك is a loanword, ultimately from European languages. But it is fully normal and widely used in Arabic.

In speech, البنك is commonly pronounced something like:

• il-bank
• or el-bank, depending on dialect and transcription style

So even though it is borrowed, it behaves like a normal Arabic noun and can take الـ:

• بنك = a bank
• البنك = the bank

A common broad pronunciation would be something like:

• haad il-maḥall 'ariib min il-bank
• or haad el-maḥall 'ariib min el-bank

A few pronunciation notes:

• هاد = haad
• المحل is often pronounced il-maḥall or el-maḥall
• قريب may sound like 'ariib in many urban Levantine accents, because ق is often pronounced as a glottal stop
• من = min
• البنك = il-bank / el-bank

So a very natural spoken version could be:

• هاد المحل أريب من البنك if you want to reflect the spoken pronunciation of ق in some dialects

But it is still written قريب.

Yes, adjectives in Arabic normally agree with the noun in gender and number.

Here, المحل is masculine singular, so قريب is masculine singular too.

Compare:

• هاد المحل قريب = this shop is near
• هاد البناية قريبة = this building is near

So if the noun were feminine, you would usually use قريبة instead of قريب.

Yes, in many Levantine varieties you can.

For example:

• هيدا المحل قريب من البنك

This is especially common in Lebanese and much Syrian speech. Both are Levantine-type colloquial forms, though what sounds most natural depends on region.

So if you are learning Levantine, it is good to notice that demonstratives vary:

• هاد
• هيدا
• sometimes هالمحل for this shop

All of these are part of the dialect landscape.

هالمحل is another very common colloquial Levantine way to say this shop / this place.

It comes from:

• ها + الـ + محل

So:

• هاد المحل
• هالمحل

Both can mean this shop.

In many contexts, هالمحل sounds very natural and conversational. A speaker might say:

• هالمحل قريب من البنك

So as a learner, it is useful to recognize both patterns.

A common Levantine way is:

• هاد المحل مو قريب من البنك

Here:

• مو = not

So:

• قريب = near
• مو قريب = not near

This is one of the most useful negation patterns in Levantine.

You would change the demonstrative.

For example, in Levantine you might hear:

• هداك المحل قريب من البنك = that shop is near the bank

Depending on region, forms vary, but هداك is a common colloquial equivalent of that for masculine nouns.

So the structure stays the same:

• [that] + shop + near + from + the bank

Yes, very normal.

The sentence structure is:

• هاد المحل = topic / subject
• قريب من البنك = description about it

This is a standard nominal sentence pattern in Arabic:

• [noun phrase] + [adjective / prepositional phrase / description]

So this kind of word order is extremely common in both colloquial and formal Arabic.