في صيدلية جنب البيت، وفي صيدلية جنب المستشفى كمان.

Here في means there is / there are, not in.

So:

• في صيدلية = there is a pharmacy

In Levantine, في is very commonly used as an existential word. The same word can also mean in, so the meaning depends on context.

Examples:

• في مي؟ = Is there water?
• أنا في البيت = I am in the house / at home

In your sentence, it clearly means there is.

Because the speaker is making two separate existence statements:

• في صيدلية جنب البيت = There is a pharmacy next to the house
• وفي صيدلية جنب المستشفى كمان = And there is also a pharmacy next to the hospital

Repeating في makes each clause complete and natural. English sometimes does the same:

• There’s a pharmacy by the house, and there’s also one by the hospital.

You could think of وفي as and there is.

In Arabic, especially in the present tense, you often do not use a separate verb for is / are the way English does.

In this sentence, في already gives the idea of there is. So Arabic does not need another word equivalent to English is.

That is very normal:

• البيت كبير = The house is big
• literally: the house big

So in your sentence, في does the existential job, and no extra is is needed.

Because the sentence is introducing a pharmacy, not the pharmacy.

• صيدلية = a pharmacy
• الصيدلية = the pharmacy

After في, Arabic often uses an indefinite noun when you are saying that something exists:

• في مطعم هون = There’s a restaurant here
• في صيدلية جنب البيت = There’s a pharmacy next to the house

If you said الصيدلية, it would sound more like you are talking about a specific pharmacy already known in the conversation.

جنب means next to, beside, or sometimes more loosely near.

So:

• جنب البيت = next to / beside / near the house
• جنب المستشفى = next to / beside / near the hospital

In everyday speech, جنب does not always mean physically touching. It can simply mean close by, depending on context.

Because they are definite:

• البيت = the house / the home
• المستشفى = the hospital

So the sentence is not talking about just any house or any hospital, but specific ones known from context.

Also, in Levantine, البيت often means home, not only the house in a literal architectural sense.

كمان means also, too, or as well.

So:

• وفي صيدلية جنب المستشفى كمان = And there’s a pharmacy next to the hospital too

In Levantine, كمان is very common in everyday speech, and placing it near the end of the clause is very natural.

Compare:

• أنا كمان = me too
• بدّي كمان = I want more / I want another one too
• في صيدلية جنب المستشفى كمان = There’s also a pharmacy next to the hospital

A more formal Arabic word would be أيضًا, but كمان is much more colloquial and very common in Levantine.

Yes, it is completely normal.

و simply means and, and Arabic uses it very freely to connect ideas. Starting a clause with و is extremely common in both speech and writing.

So:

• وفي صيدلية... = And there’s a pharmacy...

This sounds natural and conversational, especially when someone is listing places or adding extra information.

In Levantine, it is usually pronounced something like il-mustashfa or el-mustashfa, depending on region and speaker.

A few useful points:

• الـ is often pronounced il- or el- in Levantine
• the final ى sounds like a
• so المستشفى ends in -shfa

A full rough pronunciation of the whole sentence could be:

fi saydaliyye janb il-bēt, w fi saydaliyye janb il-mustashfa kamān

This is a very useful distinction:

• في صيدلية جنب البيت = There is a pharmacy next to the house
• الصيدلية جنب البيت = The pharmacy is next to the house

So:

1. في + indefinite noun often introduces something that exists
2. definite noun + description usually talks about a known specific thing

That means في صيدلية is existential, while الصيدلية is the subject of the sentence.

It sounds very natural in Levantine Arabic.

The biggest clue is كمان, which is colloquial. Also, using في as there is is very common in spoken dialects, including Levantine.

In Modern Standard Arabic, you would more likely see something like:

• هناك صيدلية بجانب البيت، وهناك أيضًا صيدلية بجانب المستشفى.
• or توجد صيدلية...

So the sentence you gave is best understood as everyday spoken Arabic, not formal MSA.

Because words ending in ـية are often pronounced -iyye in Levantine.

So:

• صيدلية is commonly pronounced saydaliyye

This is very normal in colloquial Arabic. The written form stays the same, but the spoken pronunciation reflects dialect patterns.

You will hear this in many words, for example:

• عربية → ʿarabiyye
• سورية → sūriyye
• صيدلية → saydaliyye

Yes. In real conversation, البيت often means home, and the exact English translation depends on context.

So جنب البيت could be understood as:

• next to the house
• by the house
• near home
• near our place

If the speaker is talking casually about where things are in the neighborhood, the house often feels more like home in English.