انا تعبان شوي اليوم، بس لازم اروح عالشغل.

A rough Levantine pronunciation is:

ana taʿbān shwayy il-yōm, bas lāzem arūḥ ʿa sh-shughl

A few notes:

• ع in عالشغل is the sound often written ʿ. English does not have this sound.
• ح in أروح is a stronger, breathier h than English h.
• شغل can sound a little different depending on the country: you may hear something like shughl, shoghol, or sheghel.

So don’t worry if different Levantine speakers say it slightly differently.

Because in Levantine Arabic, the present-tense verb to be is usually not said.

So:

• انا تعبان literally looks like I tired
• but it means I am tired

This is completely normal in Arabic dialects. The same thing happens with many everyday sentences:

• أنا جاهز = I am ready
• هي هون = She is here

تعبان usually means tired, worn out, or exhausted.

Depending on context, it can also mean not feeling well or run-down, but its core sense is physical or mental fatigue.

A useful comparison:

• تعبان = tired / exhausted / feeling rough
• مريض = sick / ill
• نعسان = sleepy

So in this sentence, تعبان most naturally means tired.

شوي means a little, a bit, or kind of.

So:

• تعبان شوي = a little tired / kind of tired

Yes, you can often also hear شوية. Both are common in Levantine, and the choice can depend on region and personal habit.

Very roughly:

• شوي = shorter, very common
• شوية = also common, sometimes sounds a little fuller

In this sentence, شوي sounds natural and conversational.

Yes. Time words like اليوم are fairly flexible in Arabic.

This sentence says:

• انا تعبان شوي اليوم

But you could also hear:

• اليوم أنا تعبان شوي
• أنا اليوم تعبان شوي

The meaning stays basically the same, but the emphasis changes a little:

• اليوم at the end sounds very natural and neutral
• putting اليوم earlier gives more focus to today

Here, بس means but.

It connects two ideas in contrast:

• I’m a bit tired today
• but I have to go to work

A useful thing to know is that بس can also mean only or just in other contexts. For example:

• بس هيك = just like that
• بس دقيقة = just a minute

So بس is a very common word with more than one meaning. In this sentence, it clearly means but.

لازم means something like must, have to, or need to.

So:

• لازم أروح = I have to go

A very useful pattern is:

• لازم + verb

Examples:

• لازم أدرس = I have to study
• لازم تروح = You have to go
• لازم يشتغل = He has to work

In everyday Levantine, لازم is extremely common.

This is an important Levantine grammar point.

In Levantine, بـ often marks the ordinary present or habitual form:

• بروح عالشغل = I go to work / I’m going to work

But after words like لازم, speakers usually use the verb without بـ:

• لازم أروح = I have to go
• not usually لازم بروح

So in this sentence, أروح is the expected form.

Also, in casual Arabic writing, people often leave out the hamza sign, so:

• أروح
• اروح

are just two spellings of the same word in informal writing.

عالشغل is a colloquial contraction of على الشغل.

So it is basically:

• على = to / on
• الشغل = the work / work

In fast Levantine speech, على is often reduced, and when it combines with الـ, it gets written as عالـ or heard as ʿa l-. Because ش is a sun letter, the pronunciation blends even more, so you hear something like:

ʿa sh-shughl

That is why عالشغل is very common in everyday writing and speech.

It can mean all of those, depending on context.

شغل is a very flexible everyday word. It can refer to:

• work in general
• a job
• one’s workplace

In the expression أروح عالشغل, it usually means:

• go to work
• or go to my workplace

So you should understand it naturally, not too literally.

A woman would change تعبان to تعبانة:

انا تعبانة شوي اليوم، بس لازم أروح عالشغل.

Only the adjective changes here.

• masculine: تعبان
• feminine: تعبانة

The verb أروح stays the same for I.

Yes, this is clearly colloquial Levantine Arabic.

Some Levantine features here are:

• بس for but
• شوي for a little
• لازم in a spoken pattern
• عالشغل as a spoken contraction
• informal spelling like انا and اروح

A more formal Modern Standard Arabic version would be:

أنا متعب قليلًا اليوم، لكن يجب أن أذهب إلى العمل.

That said, in real daily conversation, a Levantine speaker would be much more likely to say the original sentence than the formal MSA version.