في صحون بالمطبخ، ولازم نغسلها اليوم.

In Levantine Arabic, في often means there is / there are at the start of a sentence.

So:

• في صحون بالمطبخ = There are dishes in the kitchen

This is a very common spoken pattern.
Even though في also means in, here it is functioning as an existential word: it tells you that something exists or is present.

So compare:

• في صحون بالمطبخ = There are dishes in the kitchen
• بالمطبخ by itself = in the kitchen

صحون is the plural of صحن.

Depending on context, صحن can mean:

• plate
• dish

And صحون can mean:

• plates
• dishes

In this sentence, English would often naturally say dishes, because the second half says they need to be washed, so it sounds like dirty dishes rather than just plates as objects.

Because بـ means in / at, and it attaches directly to the noun.

So:

• بـ = in
• المطبخ = the kitchen
• بالمطبخ = in the kitchen

This is very normal in Arabic: prepositions often attach to the following word.

لازم means something like:

• necessary
• must
• have to

In Levantine, it is very commonly used to express obligation:

• لازم نغسلها = We have to wash them

Literally, it is closer to It is necessary that we wash them, but in everyday English the best translation is usually we have to wash them.

The و means and.

So the sentence is structured like this:

• في صحون بالمطبخ = There are dishes in the kitchen
• ولازم نغسلها اليوم = and we have to wash them today

In natural English, you might translate the whole thing more smoothly as:

• There are dishes in the kitchen, and we have to wash them today.

Sometimes in speech, و also helps connect ideas in a very natural, conversational way, even where English might not strongly emphasize and.

This is one of the most important things to notice.

In Arabic, non-human plurals are often treated grammatically like feminine singular when you refer back to them with pronouns.

Since صحون is a non-human plural, the pronoun used is ها (her/it) in form, but in meaning it refers to them.

So:

• صحون = dishes
• نغسلها = we wash them

This may feel strange from an English perspective, but it is completely normal in Arabic.

So the ها here does not mean one feminine object in English. It refers back to the plural noun صحون.

The نـ marks the verb as we in the present/imperfect tense.

So:

• غسل = wash
• نغسل = we wash / we are washing
• نغسلها = we wash it / them

In this sentence, because of لازم, the meaning becomes:

• لازم نغسلها = we have to wash them

So the نـ is the subject marker for we.

Yes—from an English point of view, it may feel like something is missing, but Arabic often does not use a present-tense to be the way English does.

In this sentence:

• في صحون بالمطبخ already means There are dishes in the kitchen

You do not need a separate word for are.

This is very common in Arabic, especially in present-tense statements.

اليوم means today, and putting it at the end is very natural in Arabic.

So:

• لازم نغسلها اليوم = We have to wash them today

Arabic word order is somewhat flexible, but placing time expressions like اليوم at the end is very common and natural in everyday speech.

You could sometimes move time expressions earlier for emphasis, but the sentence as given is completely normal.

Yes. On its own, في صحون بالمطبخ simply means that there are dishes/plates in the kitchen.

What makes English speakers interpret it more specifically as dishes to wash is the second part:

• ولازم نغسلها اليوم = and we have to wash them today

That strongly suggests they are dirty dishes. But the noun صحون itself does not automatically mean dirty dishes.

A common Levantine-style pronunciation would be roughly:

• n-gha-sel-ha or n-ghsil-ha, depending on the speaker and region

A few notes:

• ن = n
• غ is a deep, throaty sound, often compared loosely to a French or German r, though it is not exactly the same
• سل gives the -sel- / -sil- part
• ها = ha

If pronunciation is your goal, the most important tricky sound here is غ.

Yes, it sounds natural for spoken Levantine.

A few clues:

• في used like there is / there are is very common in speech
• لازم for have to is very common in Levantine
• The sentence overall has a natural spoken feel

In Modern Standard Arabic, you might see a more formal phrasing, but this sentence is exactly the kind of thing people would say in everyday conversation.

Sometimes yes, but not always exactly.

Possible translations of لازم include:

• must
• have to
• need to

In this sentence, the most natural English is probably:

• We have to wash them today

Using must is possible:

• We must wash them today

But in everyday English, must can sound stronger or more formal than the Arabic لازم often feels in conversation. So have to is usually the best fit.

Because Arabic, like English, does not need to specify possession if the context is already clear.

The sentence just says:

• there are dishes in the kitchen
• we have to wash them today

It does not say:

• our dishes
• the dishes
• someone’s dishes

That kind of detail is often left unstated unless it matters. The focus here is simply on the existence of the dishes and the need to wash them.