المستشفى بعيد شوي، بس في باص بيروح عالمستشفى.

Because المستشفى is grammatically masculine in Arabic, so the adjective agrees with it and stays masculine: بعيد.

A quick comparison:

• المستشفى بعيد = The hospital is far
• المدرسة بعيدة = The school is far

So even though المستشفى is not a person, Arabic still gives it grammatical gender, and here that gender is masculine.

شوي means a little, a bit, or slightly in Levantine Arabic.

So بعيد شوي means something like:

• a little far
• a bit far
• kind of far

In natural English, that often comes out as a little far or a bit far.

You may also hear:

• شوية

Both are common in speech, though usage can vary by region and speaker.

Here, بس means but.

So:

• المستشفى بعيد شوي، بس... = The hospital is a bit far, but...

In other contexts, بس can also mean only or just, so learners often notice it has more than one meaning. But in this sentence, it clearly means but.

In Levantine Arabic, في is very commonly used as an existential marker, meaning there is or there are.

So:

• في باص = There is a bus

This is one of the most common everyday patterns in spoken Levantine.

For example:

• في مشكلة = There is a problem
• في ناس هون = There are people here
• ما في وقت = There isn’t any time / There’s no time

So in this sentence, في باص literally works like there is a bus.

Because في makes it sound like there is a bus that goes to the hospital, which is the intended meaning.

Compare the feeling:

• في باص بيروح عالمستشفى
  = There is a bus that goes to the hospital

• باص بيروح عالمستشفى
  = A bus goes to the hospital / The bus goes to the hospital

Without في, the sentence is less clearly introducing the existence of a bus as a solution. With في, it sounds very natural in conversation.

بيروح means he goes, it goes, or more generally goes in spoken Levantine.

The verb comes from راح / يروح = to go.

The بـ prefix is very common in Levantine and usually marks the present or habitual form.

So:

• يروح = go / to go / he go(es) in some contexts
• بيروح = he goes / it goes / goes regularly

In this sentence, باص بيروح means:

• a bus goes
• a bus goes regularly
• a bus that goes

Because it is talking about a bus route, the habitual meaning makes sense: it’s a bus that goes to the hospital.

In Levantine Arabic, عَـ is used very often where English would say to, toward, or sometimes on/onto, depending on context.

عالمستشفى is a contraction of:

• على + المستشفى which becomes:
• عالمستشفى

In this sentence, it means:

• to the hospital

So although على literally often means on, in dialect it has a wider range of uses, and with verbs of movement it can often sound like to.

In more formal Arabic, you might expect:

• إلى المستشفى

But in everyday Levantine, عالمستشفى is very natural.

It is usually pronounced something like:

• ʿal-mustashfa
• or more simply for English speakers: al-mustashfa with a quick throat sound at the beginning

The first part عَ comes from على and is reduced in fast speech.

So:

• عالمستشفى = ʿal-mustashfa

That initial ع is a consonant that English does not have, so learners often just approximate it at first, which is normal.

A good approximate pronunciation is:

• il-mustashfa
• or el-mustashfa, depending on accent

The final ى gives an a sound here, so the word ends roughly like -fa, not -fi.

A simple breakdown:

• ال = il / el
• مستشفى = mustashfa

So altogether:

• المستشفى = il-mustashfa

Different Levantine accents may vary a little, but that approximation is a good start.

باص is a very common everyday colloquial word for bus in Levantine Arabic. It is a loanword.

In more formal or Standard Arabic, you might see:

• حافلة

But in normal spoken conversation, باص is extremely natural and common.

So this sentence sounds conversational and realistic because it uses باص, not a formal textbook-style word.

Repeating the noun is very natural in Arabic, especially in simple spoken sentences.

So:

• المستشفى بعيد شوي، بس في باص بيروح عالمستشفى

sounds clear and normal.

Arabic often repeats nouns where English might prefer:

• The hospital is a bit far, but there’s a bus that goes there

In Arabic, using the noun again can sound more straightforward and less ambiguous, especially for places.

It is clearly Levantine colloquial Arabic, not Modern Standard Arabic.

Clues include:

• شوي instead of a formal phrase like قليلًا or بعض الشيء
• بس for but
• في meaning there is
• باص for bus
• بيروح with the Levantine present marker بـ
• عالمستشفى instead of إلى المستشفى

A more formal MSA version might be something like:

• المستشفى بعيد بعض الشيء، لكن توجد حافلة تذهب إلى المستشفى.

So the original sentence is the kind of Arabic you are much more likely to hear in everyday conversation in the Levant.

It can depend on tone and context.

Literally, بعيد شوي is a little far or a bit far. But in real conversation, it can sometimes soften the statement, so it may feel like:

• kind of far
• a bit far
• somewhat far

People often use expressions like this to sound less blunt. So it may describe real distance, but it can also sound a little polite or understated, depending on how it is said.