بدل ما نقعد بالبيت، خلينا نطلع سوا نشرب قهوة.

بدل ما means instead of or rather than when it is followed by a verb.

So:

• بدل ما نقعد بالبيت = instead of staying at home
• literally: instead of we sit/stay at home

This is a very common spoken pattern in Levantine:

• بدل ما ندرس، نطلع = Instead of studying, let’s go out
• بدل ما تحكي، اشتغل = Instead of talking, work

Yes, the basic meaning of قعد is sit, but in Levantine it often also means:

• stay
• remain
• hang around
• be sitting

So نقعد بالبيت does not just mean physically sit in the house. It naturally means stay home or sit around at home.

This is very normal colloquial usage. In more formal Arabic, you might expect نجلس or a different phrasing, but نقعد is extremely common in everyday Levantine.

In Levantine, the preposition بـ very often means in, at, or inside, depending on context.

So:

• بالبيت = at home / in the house
• في البيت is also possible, but بالبيت sounds very natural in everyday speech

This is one of the first things learners notice in Levantine: بـ does a lot of work.

Examples:

• بالشغل = at work
• بالجامعة = at the university
• بالسيارة = in the car

Because البيت here refers to the home / the house, meaning a known, specific place: our home or home in a general familiar sense.

In Arabic, it is very normal to say the house where English would often just say home.

So:

• نقعد بالبيت = stay at home
• not necessarily stay in the house in a rigid literal sense

This is just how Arabic commonly expresses it.

خلينا means let’s.

So:

• خلينا نطلع = let’s go out

It comes from the verb خلّى meaning to let / to make / to leave, but in colloquial speech خلينا + verb is a very common way to make a suggestion.

Examples:

• خلينا نروح = let’s go
• خلينا نحكي = let’s talk
• خلينا نشوف = let’s see

It is one of the most useful everyday expressions in Levantine.

Because in Levantine, after words like خلينا, the prefix verb form is used to express the action being suggested.

So even though نطلع is grammatically the non-past/present form, here it means something like:

• let’s go out
• let’s head out

This same verb form can express:

• present
• future
• suggestion
• intention

depending on context.

So خلينا نطلع is completely normal and does not mean let us are going out or anything like that. It simply means let’s go out.

That’s right. طلع has a wide range of meanings in spoken Arabic, including:

• go up
• come out
• go out
• leave

In this sentence, نطلع means we go out or let’s go out.

In Levantine, طلع is a very common everyday verb for going out:

• بدك تطلع اليوم؟ = Do you want to go out today?
• طلعنا مبارح = We went out yesterday

So this is a very natural choice here.

سوا means together.

So:

• نطلع سوا = go out together

It is a very common colloquial word in Levantine.

You may also hear it in different positions:

• خلينا نطلع سوا نشرب قهوة
• خلينا نطلع نشرب قهوة سوا

Both are natural. The meaning stays basically the same.

This is a very common spoken Arabic structure.

Here the second verb نشرب expresses the purpose or next action:

• خلينا نطلع سوا نشرب قهوة
• literally: let’s go out together drink coffee
• natural English: let’s go out together and have coffee / let’s go out together to drink coffee

In colloquial Arabic, speakers often place verbs one after another without needing an extra word like to or and every time.

You could also hear:

• خلينا نطلع سوا ونشرب قهوة

That version is also correct and maybe a little more explicit, but the original is very natural in speech.

Because it is indefinite here and means coffee in a general sense, like English have coffee or grab a coffee.

So:

• نشرب قهوة = drink coffee / have a coffee

This is very idiomatic. Arabic often leaves nouns indefinite in this kind of expression.

Compare:

• نشرب مي = drink water
• ناكل خبز = eat bread
• نشرب قهوة = have coffee

If you said القهوة, it would usually sound more specific, like the coffee.

It is clearly colloquial Levantine.

Things that make it sound spoken/Levantine include:

• بدل ما
• نقعد
• بالبيت
• خلينا
• سوا
• the overall flow of the sentence

A more MSA-style version would be something like:

• بدل أن نجلس في البيت، دعنا نخرج معًا لنشرب قهوة.

That is understandable, but it sounds much more formal and less like everyday conversation.

A common broad pronunciation would be something like:

badal ma nʔoʕod bil-bēt, khallīna niṭlaʕ sawa nishrab ahwe

A few useful notes:

• قعد may be pronounced with a glottal stop in many urban accents, so نقعد can sound like nʔoʕod
• قهوة is often pronounced ahwe or 'ahwe
• خ in خلينا is the throaty kh sound, like in Bach or Loch

Pronunciation varies across Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Palestine, but the sentence will sound close to this in many places.

Yes. In natural English, that is often the best way to understand it.

Even though the literal words are drink coffee, the idea is often broader and more social:

• let’s go out together and have coffee
• let’s go out together for coffee
• let’s grab coffee together

That is exactly how this kind of sentence is often used in real conversation.

Yes, many.

For example:

• بدل ما نضلّ بالبيت، خلينا نروح نشرب قهوة.
• ليش نقعد بالبيت؟ خلينا نطلع سوا نشرب قهوة.
• يلا نطلع نشرب قهوة سوا.

These are all natural, with small differences:

• نضلّ = stay/remain
• نروح = go
• ليش = why
• يلا = come on / let’s

So the original sentence is just one very natural colloquial way of expressing the idea.