جارتي سألتني اذا خلصنا الحجز، وقلتلا اي ولسه عم نستنى خبر.

The base word is جارة, which means female neighbor. When you add the possessive suffix -ي for my, the final ة changes to ت before the suffix:

جارة + ي → جارتي

So جارتي means my female neighbor.

If you wanted my male neighbor, you would usually say جاري.

سألتني = سألت + ني

• سألت = she asked
• ني = me

So the whole word means she asked me.

In Levantine, attached object pronouns like -ني are very common, so instead of saying a separate word for me, Arabic often attaches it directly to the verb.

Here إذا means if / whether in the sense of an indirect question:

سألتني إذا خلصنا الحجز
= She asked me if / whether we finished the booking

This is very common in Levantine. In English, after ask, we often say if or whether. Arabic uses إذا naturally in that role.

So here it is not a condition like If it rains, we’ll stay home. It is introducing what she asked.

Literally, خلصنا comes from the idea of finishing or being done. In this sentence:

خلصنا الحجز
means something like:

• we finished the booking
• we completed the reservation
• we got the booking done

So الحجز here is the booking / the reservation, and خلصنا means it has been completed.

In everyday Levantine, خلص is a very common verb for finish, be done, or complete.

Because Arabic verbs already show the subject.

• خلصنا = we finished
• نستنى = we wait / we are waiting

The -نا in خلصنا and the نـ at the beginning of نستنى already tell you the subject is we.

Arabic often leaves out separate subject pronouns unless there is emphasis or contrast. So you do not need to say نحنا here.

This breaks down as:

• و = and
• قلت = I said
• لا = to her

So وقلتلا means and I told her or and I said to her.

In Levantine, object and prepositional pronouns often attach directly to the verb. The to her part can be written in different informal ways, such as لها, لا, or forms reflecting pronunciation. In casual Levantine writing, spellings are often flexible.

Yes. إي / اي is a very common Levantine way to say yes.

Both spellings may appear in informal writing. People are usually trying to represent the spoken form, not strict formal spelling.

So in this sentence:

وقلتلا اي
= and I told her yes

This is a very common Levantine pattern.

• لسه = still or sometimes not yet, depending on context
• عم = a marker of ongoing action, often similar to English -ing

So:

لسه عم نستنى
means we are still waiting

That is one of the most useful colloquial patterns to learn in Levantine.

نستنى is the normal everyday colloquial Levantine verb for we wait / we are waiting.

A more formal or Standard Arabic verb would be ننتظر, but in spoken Levantine people usually say استنى / نستنى.

So:

• نستنى = colloquial, natural in speech
• ننتظر = more formal / Standard Arabic

That is why نستنى fits this sentence much better.

Here خبر means news, word, or an update.

So:

لسه عم نستنى خبر
means we’re still waiting for news / an update

It is indefinite because the speaker means some news, not a specific previously mentioned piece of news. That is why it is خبر and not الخبر.

In natural English, this would often be translated as we’re still waiting to hear back.

It is basically a Levantine colloquial sentence, but the spelling is somewhat mixed, which is very normal in everyday writing.

The strongly colloquial parts are things like:

• قلتللا / قلتلا
• اي
• لسه عم
• نستنى

Words like سألتني and إذا can also appear in more standard-looking spelling, even when the sentence itself is clearly dialectal.

This is very common in Arabic texting and informal writing: people write spoken dialect, but not always with one fixed spelling system.

A rough Levantine-style pronunciation would be:

jārti sa'altni iza khallaṣna l-ḥajz, w-'eltla ē, w-lissa ʿam nistanna khabar

A few notes:

• جارتي → jārti
• سألتني → roughly sa'altni
• قلتلا → roughly 'eltla
• اي → ē
• لسه → lissa or lissə, depending on region
• نستنى → nistanna

Pronunciation varies across Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Palestine, but that rough version will help you hear how the sentence works.