قبل ما نطلع عالمطار، فتشت على الجواز بالشنطة السودا.

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Breakdown of قبل ما نطلع عالمطار، فتشت على الجواز بالشنطة السودا.

• على: to
• ب: in
• قبل ما: before

Questions & Answers about قبل ما نطلع عالمطار، فتشت على الجواز بالشنطة السودا.

What does قبل ما mean here, and why is ما there?

قبل ما means before when it introduces a whole clause, like before we leave.

In this sentence:

قبل ما نطلع عالمطار = before we head out to the airport

The ما here is not negation. It’s just part of the very common Levantine pattern:

قبل ما + present verb

Examples:

• قبل ما آكل = before I eat
• قبل ما نروح = before we go

So learners should treat قبل ما as one useful chunk.

Why is the verb نطلع used? Doesn’t طلع mean go up?

Yes, طلع literally has meanings like go up or come out, but in Levantine it also very commonly means:

• leave
• head out
• set off

So:

نطلع عالمطار = we head out to the airport / we leave for the airport

This is very natural in spoken Levantine. Arabic verbs often have a wider range of meanings than a single English gloss suggests.

Why is it عالمطار? Is that one word?

This is an informal written form of:

عَ المطار