حط جواز السفر بالشنطة السودا.

حط means put or place.

In this sentence, it is an imperative: a command.
It is the form you would usually say to one male in Levantine Arabic.

Related forms:

• حطّ = put! (to one male)
• حطّي = put! (to one female)
• حطّوا = put! (to more than one person)

So the sentence is directed to a single male unless context says otherwise.

ضع is the Modern Standard Arabic verb for put, but in everyday Levantine speech people usually say حط.

So:

• ضع جواز السفر... sounds formal or written
• حط جواز السفر... sounds natural in conversation

This is a very common difference between spoken Levantine and Standard Arabic.

Literally, جواز السفر is passport.

Word by word:

• جواز = permit / pass
• السفر = travel

So the expression literally means something like travel pass, but as a fixed phrase it simply means passport.

In everyday speech, speakers often use the full expression جواز السفر, though sometimes جواز alone may be understood from context.

The prefix الـ means the.

In Arabic, definiteness is marked directly on the noun, so:

• الشنطة = the bag
• السفر = the travel

In the expression جواز السفر, the second word usually stays definite as part of the fixed phrase passport.

So:

• جواز سفر can sound more general or dictionary-like
• جواز السفر is a very common everyday way to say the passport or just passport, depending on context

And الشنطة is definite because it means the bag.

بالشنطة is بـ + الشنطة.

Here بـ means something like in, inside, or sometimes into, depending on context.

So:

• بالشنطة = in the bag

In commands like this, English often says put the passport in the black bag, and Levantine naturally uses بـ for that idea.

So the structure is:

• حط = put
• جواز السفر = the passport
• بالشنطة السودا = in the black bag

In this sentence, it can cover the meaning of both in and into.

Arabic often does not separate those as strictly as English does in everyday speech. With a verb like حط, the meaning is naturally directional:

• حط جواز السفر بالشنطة = put the passport in/into the bag

English prefers into when there is movement, but in is also very natural in commands like this:

• Put it in the bag.

So the Arabic expression is completely normal.

شنطة usually means bag, and depending on context it can refer to:

• a handbag
• a bag
• a suitcase
• sometimes even luggage more generally

So الشنطة السودا means the black bag, but the exact kind of bag depends on the situation.

If context clearly involves travel, it might be understood as a suitcase or travel bag.

Because شنطة is a feminine noun, the adjective must agree with it.

• masculine: أسود = black
• feminine: سودا = black

So:

• شنطة سودا = a black bag
• الشنطة السودا = the black bag

Arabic adjectives agree with the noun in gender and definiteness.

السودا is the normal colloquial Levantine form.

In Modern Standard Arabic, the feminine of أسود is سوداء.
In Levantine speech, many words of this type are pronounced in a simpler colloquial form:

• Standard Arabic: سوداء
• Levantine: سودا

That is very normal in spoken Arabic. It is not a mistake; it is just dialect.

In Arabic, adjectives normally come after the noun.

So:

• الشنطة السودا = literally the bag the-black
• natural English: the black bag

This is the standard word order in both Levantine and Standard Arabic.

Because Arabic adjectives match the noun in definiteness too.

So:

• شنطة سودا = a black bag
• الشنطة السودا = the black bag

If the noun is definite, the adjective is also definite.
That is why both words carry الـ in الشنطة السودا.

A natural Levantine pronunciation would be close to:

bish-shanTa s-soda
or
be-shshanTa s-soda

A few helpful points:

• بـ + ال becomes بال
• In pronunciation, the ل of ال assimilates before ش and س, because those are sun letters
• So الشنطة is pronounced roughly ish-shanTa / sh-shanTa
• And السودا is pronounced roughly is-soda / s-soda

So the written form stays بالشنطة السودا, but the spoken form has that doubled sh and s sound.

Yes. In Levantine, ج is usually pronounced like the j in job.

So جواز sounds roughly like:

• jawāz

And جواز السفر is roughly:

• jawāz is-safar

Depending on the speaker and region, small pronunciation differences are normal, but the j sound is typical in Levantine.

Because this is spoken Levantine Arabic, not formal Standard Arabic.

In everyday Levantine:

• case endings are not used
• many final short vowels disappear
• forms are generally shorter and simpler

So a formal Standard Arabic version might look more fully inflected, but in Levantine you simply say:

حط جواز السفر بالشنطة السودا

That is exactly what you would expect in natural speech.

You would change the imperative form of حط:

• to one man: حط جواز السفر بالشنطة السودا
• to one woman: حطّي جواز السفر بالشنطة السودا
• to a group: حطّوا جواز السفر بالشنطة السودا

The rest of the sentence stays the same.

Yes, it sounds very natural.

It is short, direct, and conversational:

• حط = everyday spoken verb
• جواز السفر = common phrase for passport
• بالشنطة السودا = natural way to say in the black bag

So this is the kind of sentence you could realistically hear in daily life, especially while packing, traveling, or giving instructions.