اذا بدك، منحضر برنامج جديد عالتلفزيون بعد العشا.

It means if you want or if you’d like.

In Levantine, إذا = if, and بدك = you want. Together, إذا بدك is a very common way to make a suggestion sound polite and casual, like:

If you want, we can...

Because إذا is usually used for a real, open possibility:

إذا بدك، منحضر... = If you want, we’ll watch...

By contrast, لو often sounds more hypothetical, less real, or more like if only / if... then... in imagined situations.

So in everyday Levantine, إذا بدك is the natural choice for a normal suggestion.

In speech, it changes depending on who you are talking to:

• to one man: بدك = baddak / biddak
• to one woman: بدك in casual spelling too, but pronounced baddik / biddik
• to more than one person: بدكن

So the written form بدك can be a little ambiguous in casual Arabic writing. Context usually tells you who is being addressed.

Because Arabic verbs already include the subject.

منحضر already means we watch / we’ll watch. The مـ / mn- part shows that the subject is we.

So Arabic often does not need a separate word like we unless you want emphasis. If you did want emphasis, you could say نحنا منحضر.

This is a very common Levantine pattern.

In many Levantine varieties:

• بنحضر often sounds present or habitual: we watch / we are watching / we usually watch
• رح نحضر makes the future very explicit: we will watch
• منحضر without بـ can be used after things like إذا and can sound like a future or suggested action: we’ll watch

So in this sentence, إذا بدك، منحضر... naturally means something like:

If you want, we’ll watch...

Here it means watch.

In Levantine, حضر can mean attend, and with things like TV shows, movies, or programs, it can also mean watch.

So:

• نحضر فيلم = watch a movie
• نحضر برنامج = watch a program/show

That is different from حضّر with a doubled middle consonant, which means prepare. In normal Arabic spelling without vowel marks, those can look very similar, so context matters.

Because in Arabic, adjectives usually come after the noun.

So:

• برنامج = program
• جديد = new

Together: برنامج جديد = a new program

Also, the adjective agrees with the noun. Since برنامج is masculine singular, جديد is masculine singular too.

A useful comparison:

• برنامج جديد = a new program
• البرنامج الجديد = the new program

In Arabic, if the noun is definite, the adjective is definite too.

It is a colloquial shortened form of على التلفزيون.

So:

• على = on
• التلفزيون = the television / TV

In everyday Levantine speech and writing, على is often shortened to عـ, so على التلفزيون becomes عالتلفزيون.

It means on TV or on the television.

Because العشا is the everyday colloquial Levantine form.

In more formal Arabic, you would often see العشاء. In Levantine speech, that commonly becomes العشا.

So:

• العشا = dinner, in colloquial Levantine
• العشاء = the more formal / MSA form

This kind of shortening is very normal in dialect.

These are two sounds English speakers often struggle with:

• ع as in عالتلفزيون and العشا: a deep throat sound with no exact English equivalent
• ح as in منحضر: a stronger, breathier version of h, produced farther back in the throat

A good beginner approach is:

• for ح, use a strong whispery h
• for ع, don’t force it too much at first; listen a lot and imitate native speakers gradually

Even if your pronunciation is not perfect at first, people will usually understand you from context.