الحمام صغير، بس فيه صابون وفوطة.

In Arabic, especially in the present tense, you often do not use a verb equivalent to is.

So:

• الحمام صغير
• literally: the bathroom small
• natural meaning: The bathroom is small

This is called a nominal sentence. In the present tense, Arabic usually just puts the noun and the adjective together.

If you wanted past tense, then you would use a verb, for example:

• الحمام كان صغير
• The bathroom was small

Because الحمام is a masculine noun in Arabic, so the adjective has to agree with it.

• الحمام = masculine
• صغير = masculine singular adjective
• صغيرة = feminine singular adjective

So:

• الحمام صغير = correct
• الحمام صغيرة = incorrect

Arabic adjectives must match the noun in:

• gender
• number
• definiteness

بس means but in Levantine Arabic.

So:

• الحمام صغير، بس فيه صابون وفوطة
• The bathroom is small, but there is soap and a towel in it

A few useful notes:

• بس is very common in everyday speech.
• In Modern Standard Arabic, you might more often see لكن for but.
• In Levantine conversation, بس sounds very natural.

Here فيه means there is or there are.

So:

• فيه صابون = There is soap
• فيه صابون وفوطة = There is soap and a towel

In Levantine, فيه is extremely common for expressing existence.

It originally comes from:

• في = in
• ـه = it / him

But in everyday speech, learners should usually just treat فيه as a fixed expression meaning there is / there are.

Because in Levantine Arabic, فيه is often used for both there is and there are.

So even with more than one thing, people commonly say:

• فيه صابون وفوطة
• literally something like there-is soap and a towel
• natural English: there are soap and a towel / there is soap and a towel

In everyday Levantine, this is normal. You do not need to change فيه just because the following noun is plural or because there are multiple items.

Arabic has no separate indefinite article like English a/an.

So:

• فوطة can mean a towel
• صابون can mean soap or some soap, depending on context

Arabic marks definite nouns with الـ (the), but indefinite nouns usually appear without anything extra.

Compare:

• فوطة = a towel
• الفوطة = the towel

And:

• صابون = soap / some soap
• الصابون = the soap

Because الحمام is definite: the bathroom.

The other nouns are indefinite:

• صابون = soap / some soap
• فوطة = a towel

So the sentence is structured like this:

• الحمام = the bathroom
• صغير = small
• بس = but
• فيه صابون وفوطة = there is soap and a towel

This difference between definite and indefinite nouns is very important in Arabic.

Yes. حمام can also mean pigeons or doves, and in some contexts bathhouse.

But here, because the sentence mentions:

• صابون = soap
• فوطة = towel

the meaning is clearly bathroom.

So context tells you which meaning is intended.

فوطة means towel, and yes, it is treated as a feminine noun.

One clue is the ending ـة (taa marbuuTa), which often marks feminine nouns.

So if you described it with an adjective, you would use the feminine form:

• فوطة كبيرة = a big towel

not

• فوطة كبير

In this sentence, there is no adjective describing فوطة, so you just see the noun by itself.

Both are possible. The order is not grammatically fixed here.

• فيه صابون وفوطة
• فيه فوطة وصابون

Both would be understood. The speaker is just listing what is available in the bathroom.

Sometimes the order reflects what feels more natural or what the speaker thinks of first, but there is no special grammar rule forcing this exact order.

A common Levantine-style pronunciation would be something like:

• il-ḥammām zġīr, bas fīh ṣābūn w fūṭa

A few pronunciation notes:

• الحمام: the ḥ is a strong, breathy Arabic h
• صغير: often pronounced zġīr in Levantine
• بس: pronounced bas
• فيه: usually fīh
• و before فوطة is often just a quick w
• فوطة: usually fūṭa

You may hear small regional differences, but this would sound very normal in Levantine speech.