حضرتك معك هدية لعيد الميلاد؟

حضرتك is a polite way to address someone in Levantine Arabic. It is similar to a respectful you, or sometimes the tone of sir/ma’am in English. It adds politeness to the question.

The core sentence is really معك هدية لعيد الميلاد؟ and حضرتك makes it more respectful.

They do different jobs.

• حضرتك = polite form of address
• -ك in معك = the actual attached pronoun you

So معك literally means with you. The whole sentence is something like:

You, respectfully, do you have with you a gift for ... ?

This is very normal in spoken Arabic.

Literally, معك means with you.

But in everyday Arabic, مع + pronoun can be used to express having something with you at the moment. So:

• معك هدية؟ literally = Is a gift with you?
• natural English = Do you have a gift with you?

This often suggests possession right now, not just in general.

Arabic does not use do in questions the way English does, and it also does not have one single everyday verb that works exactly like English to have in all situations.

Instead, possession is often expressed with structures like:

• معك = with you
• عندك = at your place / you have

So معك هدية؟ naturally means Do you have a gift with you?

In Levantine Arabic, a yes/no question is often formed just by intonation. The word order can stay the same as in a statement.

So the sentence becomes a question mainly through:

• rising tone in speech
• the question mark ؟ in writing

In more formal Arabic, you might see هل, but in everyday Levantine it is usually not needed.

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

So:

• هدية = a gift
• الهدية = the gift

A noun without ال is often indefinite.

لـ usually means for or to.

Here, لعيد الميلاد means for the birthday or for Christmas, depending on context.

It is attached because short prepositions in Arabic are written connected to the following word:

• لـ + عيد → لعيد

That is completely normal Arabic spelling.

Because this is an idafa construction, a very common Arabic noun structure.

عيد الميلاد literally means something like the feast/celebration of the birth.

In an idafa:

• the first noun usually does not take ال
• the second noun can make the whole phrase definite

So عيد الميلاد is correct, not العيد الميلاد.

This can be confusing.

In many situations:

• عيد ميلاد = birthday
• عيد الميلاد = Christmas

But actual usage can vary by region and speaker, and context matters a lot. If your lesson gives one specific meaning, that is the intended meaning for this sentence. Still, it is good to know that this phrase can be ambiguous in real life.

In normal Arabic spelling, it can be unclear, because short vowels are usually not written.

For معك, the pronunciation changes:

• to a man: maʿak
• to a woman: maʿik

But both are usually written معك.

The same issue can happen with حضرتك. So the written form may look the same even when the spoken form changes.

Yes. You can simply say:

معك هدية لعيد الميلاد؟

That is a shorter and still natural version. Adding حضرتك makes it sound more polite or respectful. So:

• معك هدية لعيد الميلاد؟ = shorter, more neutral
• حضرتك معك هدية لعيد الميلاد؟ = more polite