اذا ما معك قلم، في قلم عالطاولة جنب الدفتر.

One common pronunciation is:

iza ma maʿak ʾalam, fī ʾalam ʿaṭ-ṭāwle janb id-daftar.

A few notes:

• قلم is often pronounced ʾalam in many urban Levantine accents because ق can sound like a glottal stop.
• Some speakers keep ق as q, so you may also hear qalam.
• الطاولة often sounds like ṭāwle in everyday speech.
• الدفتر is pronounced with assimilation: id-daftar.

Here اذا ما means if ... not or more naturally if you don’t...

So:

• اذا = if
• ما = negation

Together in this sentence:

• اذا ما معك قلم = if you don’t have a pen

This is a very common colloquial pattern in Levantine.

Literally, معك means with you:

• مع = with
• -ك = you (to a male; in writing this same form is often used broadly in examples)

In Levantine, possession is often expressed through the idea of something being with someone.

So:

• معك قلم literally = with you, a pen
• natural English = you have a pen

This often suggests something you have on you or with you right now.

Yes, اذا ما عندك قلم is also very natural.

The difference is mostly nuance:

• معك = with you, often suggesting on your person / with you right now
• عندك = you have, often broader and less specifically physical

In this sentence, معك is especially natural because the speaker seems to mean:

• If you don’t have a pen with you, there’s one on the table.

In Levantine, ما commonly negates verb-like expressions and possession-type expressions such as معك.

So:

• ما معك قلم = you don’t have a pen

By contrast, مو is more often used with nouns, adjectives, and identity statements, such as:

• هو مو تعبان = he isn’t tired
• هاد مو كتاب = this isn’t a book

So ما معك is the expected form here.

Here في does not mean in. It means there is / there are.

So:

• في قلم = there is a pen

This is a very common Levantine existential structure.

The same written word في can also mean in, but context tells you which meaning is intended.

Compare:

• في قلم عالطاولة = there is a pen on the table
• في البيت = in the house

عالطاولة is a common colloquial contraction of:

على الطاولة

What happened is:

• على = on
• الطاولة = the table

In fast everyday speech, على الـ often becomes عالـ.

So:

• على الطاولة → عالطاولة

Also, because ط is a sun letter, the ل of الـ is assimilated in pronunciation:

• written: عالطاولة
• pronounced roughly: ʿaṭ-ṭāwle

جنب means next to, beside, or by.

So:

• جنب الدفتر = next to the notebook

Breakdown:

• جنب = beside / next to
• الدفتر = the notebook

This is a very common way to express location in Levantine.

You may also hear related expressions like:

• حدّ الدفتر = next to the notebook
• بجنب الدفتر = beside the notebook

In Arabic, the present-tense verb to be is usually not said.

So Arabic often says the equivalent of:

• the pen on the table instead of
• the pen is on the table

In this sentence, the second part uses the existential word في:

• في قلم عالطاولة = there is a pen on the table

If you wanted to say the pen is on the table, you could simply say:

• القلم عالطاولة

with no separate word for is.

Repeating the noun is very normal in Arabic.

So this is perfectly natural:

• اذا ما معك قلم، في قلم عالطاولة

English often prefers one to avoid repetition, but Arabic commonly just repeats the noun.

You can sometimes use واحد to mean one, but here repeating قلم sounds simple and natural.

Yes, it is clearly colloquial Levantine.

Some clues are:

• ما معك for negation and possession
• في meaning there is
• عالطاولة as a spoken contraction
• everyday location word جنب
• no case endings

A more Standard Arabic version would be something like:

إذا لم يكن معك قلم، فهناك قلم على الطاولة بجانب الدفتر.

That sounds much more formal and written.

In standard spelling, yes, it is normally written إذا.

But in informal writing, especially online or in text messages, people often drop hamzas and other spelling details. So اذا is very common in casual contexts.

So:

• formal / standard spelling: إذا
• casual spelling: اذا

Both are easy for native speakers to understand.