بدي اروح عالصيدلية مشان اشتري دوا لاختي.

بدي is the common Levantine way to say I want.

• بدي = I want
• أريد is Standard Arabic / formal Arabic, and sounds much more formal or bookish in everyday Levantine speech.

So:

• بدي اروح = I want to go
• In MSA, you might say أريد أن أذهب

A learner should get very used to بدي, because it is extremely common in spoken Levantine.

Historically, it comes from بـ + ودّي or related forms, but for learners it is best to treat بدي as a fixed everyday expression meaning I want.

You will often see similar forms:

• بدي = I want
• بدك = you want
• بده = he wants
• بدها = she wants
• بدنا = we want
• بدهم = they want

So in this sentence, بدي اروح literally works like I want go, meaning I want to go.

In informal writing of Levantine, people often write less strictly than in Standard Arabic. So you may see:

• اروح
• أروح

Both represent the same word here: I go / I go off / I head to

In casual Levantine writing, hamzas are often omitted. That is very normal in texts, chats, and informal examples.

So بدي اروح and بدي أروح are the same in meaning.

Because in Levantine Arabic, after بدي you usually just use the verb directly.

• بدي اروح = I want to go
• بدي آكل = I want to eat
• بدي نام = I want to sleep

English needs to before the verb, but Levantine does not.

So the structure is:

• بدي + verb

not

• بدي + to + verb

عَ is a very common Levantine preposition meaning to, at, or sometimes on, depending on context.

Here:

• عَ الصيدلية = to the pharmacy

When written together, it becomes:

• عالصيدلية

So:

• اروح عالصيدلية = go to the pharmacy

This is extremely common in speech. You will often hear:

• عالبيت = to the house / home
• عالجامعة = to the university
• عالسوق = to the market

Because that is the normal contraction in speech and very common in writing too.

• عَ
  • الـ → عالـ

So:

• عَ الصيدلية becomes عالصيدلية

This is similar to how spoken language often merges words together for ease of pronunciation.

Yes. الصيدلية is the normal word for the pharmacy.

• صيدلية = pharmacy
• الصيدلية = the pharmacy

Related words:

• صيدلي = pharmacist
• صيدلانية or صيدلانية/صيدلانية depending on region and usage = female pharmacist

In everyday Levantine, الصيدلية is exactly the word you should expect for pharmacy/drugstore.

مشان means for, for the sake of, or very commonly so that / in order to, depending on context.

In this sentence:

• مشان اشتري = in order to buy / so that I buy

This is one of the most common Levantine words for expressing purpose.

Examples:

• جيت مشان شوفك = I came to see you
• اتصلت مشان اسأل = I called to ask

So here it links the first action to the purpose of that action:

• I want to go to the pharmacy in order to buy medicine...

Sometimes yes, depending on region and style.

Both مشان and عشان can mean because of, for, or in order to in different dialects. In Levantine, مشان is especially common. A learner of Levantine should be very comfortable with مشان.

So:

• مشان اشتري sounds very natural in Levantine.

Using عشان may sound more Egyptian or more mixed-dialect depending on the speaker.

Just like with اروح, the hamza is often omitted in casual writing.

So both of these can represent the same spoken form:

• اشتري
• أشتري

Here it means I buy or more naturally for me to buy / so I can buy, depending on the structure.

In informal Levantine writing, you should expect spelling variation like this all the time.

Because in Levantine, after مشان you commonly use the imperfect/present verb to express purpose.

So:

• مشان اشتري = so that I buy / in order to buy

This is a normal spoken pattern.

Compare:

• بدي ادرس مشان انجح = I want to study so I pass
• رحت مشان شوفه = I went to see him

Even though English often uses an infinitive (to buy), Levantine uses a finite verb form.

دوا is the normal colloquial Levantine pronunciation and spelling for medicine.

• Levantine: دوا
• MSA: دواء

This is a very common difference between spoken and formal Arabic. In everyday speech, the final hamza of many Standard Arabic words may disappear or the word may simplify in pronunciation.

So in spoken Levantine:

• اشتري دوا = buy medicine

sounds completely natural.

Because دوا here is being used in a general sense: medicine rather than the medicine.

So:

• اشتري دوا = buy medicine / some medicine

If you wanted to specify a particular medicine, you might say:

• اشتري الدوا = buy the medicine

Without الـ, it is indefinite and general.

لاختي means for my sister.

It breaks down as:

• لـ = for / to
• أخت = sister
• ـي = my

In connected informal writing, this appears as:

• لأختي
• or often written without hamza very casually as لاختي

So:

• دوا لاختي = medicine for my sister

Because when the preposition لـ attaches to أختي, it becomes one connected written unit:

• لِ + أختي → لأختي

In very casual writing, the hamza may be omitted:

• لاختي

This does not change the meaning. It is still for my sister.

Yes, very typical.

The sentence goes:

• بدي = I want
• اروح عالصيدلية = go to the pharmacy
• مشان اشتري دوا لاختي = in order to buy medicine for my sister

This kind of structure is extremely natural in Levantine speech: want + verb + place + purpose

So the whole sentence flows in a very normal spoken way.

A more Standard Arabic version would be something like:

• أريد أن أذهب إلى الصيدلية لكي أشتري دواءً لأختي

Compared with the Levantine sentence:

• بدي اروح عالصيدلية مشان اشتري دوا لاختي

Some key differences:

• بدي instead of أريد
• اروح instead of أذهب
• عَ instead of إلى
• مشان instead of لكي
• دوا instead of دواء
• no case endings in Levantine

This is a great example of how spoken Levantine is shorter and less formal than MSA.

A rough pronunciation might be:

biddi aruu7 ʿaṣ-ṣaydaliyye mishān eshtiri dawa la-ukhti

A few notes:

• بدي is usually pronounced biddi
• عالصيدلية often sounds like ʿaṣ-ṣaydaliyye, because ال before ص assimilates
• مشان sounds like mishān or mshān, depending on speaker and speed
• دوا sounds like dawa
• لاختي / لأختي sounds like la-ukhti

Pronunciation varies by country and city, but this is the general idea.

Because ص is a sun letter. In Arabic, when الـ comes before a sun letter, the l sound assimilates into the next consonant.

So:

• ال + صيدلية is pronounced
• aṣ-ṣaydaliyye

And with عَ before it:

• عالصيدلية is pronounced roughly
• ʿaṣ-ṣaydaliyye

This is a pronunciation rule, not a meaning change.

Most basically, بدي means I want, but in everyday English translation it can sometimes feel like I need depending on context.

For example:

• بدي مي = I want water / I need water
• بدي اروح = I want to go

In this sentence, the most straightforward meaning is I want to go. Whether it sounds like a strong desire or a practical need depends on context and tone.

Yes. A speaker might say variations like:

• بدي روح عالصيدلية مشان اشتري دوا لأختي
• بدي أروح عالصيدلية كرمال اشتري دوا لأختي
• بدي روح عالصيدلية لحتى اشتري دوا لأختي

These all mean roughly the same thing, with small regional or stylistic differences.

• روح / أروح: both may appear in colloquial writing
• مشان / كرمال / لحتى: different ways to express purpose

The original sentence is completely natural and useful.