اختي جوعانة كمان، بس هي ما بدها لحمة اليوم.

Because in Levantine Arabic, the present tense often uses a nominal sentence with no separate verb to be.

So:

• اختي جوعانة = My sister is hungry
• literally: my sister hungry

This is completely normal in Arabic.
If you wanted past tense, then you would usually need a verb, for example:

• اختي كانت جوعانة = My sister was hungry

Because جوعان means hungry for a masculine subject, while جوعانة is the feminine form.

Since اختي = my sister, the adjective has to agree with it:

• جوعان = hungry (masculine)
• جوعانة = hungry (feminine)

So:

• أخي جوعان = My brother is hungry
• اختي جوعانة = My sister is hungry

This masculine/feminine agreement is very common in Arabic adjectives.

Here, كمان means also or too.

So:

• اختي جوعانة كمان = My sister is hungry too / also

In Levantine, كمان is extremely common and can mean things like:

• also / too
• sometimes more
• sometimes again, depending on context

In this sentence, the meaning is clearly also / too.

Good question — in Levantine Arabic, بس can mean both:

• only / just
• but

The meaning depends on context.

In this sentence:

• بس هي ما بدها لحمة اليوم
• here بس clearly means but

Examples:

• بدي مي بس = I only want water
• كنت بدي أجي، بس تعبت = I wanted to come, but I got tired

So بس is a very useful everyday word with more than one meaning.

ما بدها means she doesn’t want.

It has two parts:

• ما = negation marker, not / doesn’t
• بدها = she wants

So:

• بدها = she wants
• ما بدها = she doesn’t want

A very helpful pattern to know in Levantine is:

• بدي = I want
• بدك = you want
• بده = he wants
• بدها = she wants
• بدنا = we want
• بدكن = you all want
• بدهم = they want

The negative is usually made with ما:

• ما بدي = I don’t want
• ما بدك = you don’t want
• ما بدها = she doesn’t want

Also, in careful spelling you may see this written as بدّها, with a shadda showing a doubled d sound, but in casual writing people often leave that out.

Yes — بدها already tells you the subject is she, so هي is not strictly necessary.

You could say:

• بس ما بدها لحمة اليوم

and it would still mean:

• But she doesn’t want meat today

Including هي can do things like:

• add emphasis
• make the sentence clearer
• create a natural contrast

So بس هي ما بدها لحمة اليوم can feel like:

• but she doesn’t want meat today
• or even but as for her, she doesn’t want meat today

This kind of extra pronoun is very common in spoken Arabic.

In Levantine, لحمة usually means meat, but in everyday use it often especially suggests red meat rather than chicken or fish.

So depending on context, لحمة might be understood as:

• meat in general
• red meat
• beef or lamb/meat dishes

For example, many speakers would naturally contrast:

• لحمة = meat
• دجاج / جاج = chicken
• سمك = fish

So in this sentence, ما بدها لحمة اليوم most naturally means she doesn’t want meat today, often with the sense of not wanting a meat dish / red meat today.

In more careful spelling, especially in Standard Arabic, you would usually write:

• أختي

But in informal everyday writing, many people write:

• اختي

So the hamza is often omitted in casual Levantine texting and informal writing.

Both are understood as:

• أختي / اختي = my sister

This happens a lot in dialect writing, because spelling is often looser than in Standard Arabic.

A common Levantine-style pronunciation would be something like:

• ikhti jōʿāne kamān, bas hiyye mā biddha laḥme l-yōm

A few notes:

• اختي = ikhti
• جوعانة = jōʿāne or juʿāne, depending on region
• كمان = kamān
• هي is often pronounced hiyye
• بدها is often pronounced biddha
• لحمة = laḥme
• اليوم = il-yōm or l-yōm

Pronunciation varies across Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine, but this gives a good general Levantine feel.

Because placing time expressions at the end is very natural in Arabic, just as it is in English.

So:

• ما بدها لحمة اليوم = She doesn’t want meat today

The word اليوم means today, and putting it at the end sounds very normal.

Arabic is flexible, though. You could move time words earlier for emphasis, for example:

• اليوم ما بدها لحمة
• Today she doesn’t want meat

But in everyday speech, the original order is very natural.