وجهي كان تعبان الصبح، فغسلته وشفت شعري بالمراية.

A common Levantine-style pronunciation would be:

wijhi kān taʿbān iṣ-ṣubḥ, fa-ghasalt-o w shifit shaʿri bil-mrāye

A few notes:

• وجهي → wijhi or sometimes wajhi
• شفت is often pronounced shifit or shefit, depending on region
• بالمراية often sounds like bil-mrāye

Exact pronunciation varies by country, city, and even speaker.

Good question. In Levantine, both وجه and وش can mean face, depending on region and style.

• وجهي = my face
• وشّي = also my face

So وجهي كان تعبان is understandable and natural, though in some areas وشّي كان تعبان may sound more everyday or colloquial.

This is a good example of how Levantine has regional variation even in very common words.

كان is the past form of to be.

In Arabic, in the present tense you usually do not use a word for is:

• وجهي تعبان = my face is tired

But in the past, you do use كان:

• وجهي كان تعبان = my face was tired

So كان marks past time here.

Because وجه is grammatically masculine in Arabic.

So even though English nouns do not have grammatical gender, Arabic nouns do, and adjectives have to agree with them.

• وجه is masculine
• so the adjective is تعبان

If the noun were feminine, you would usually use the feminine adjective form:

• البنت كانت تعبانة = the girl was tired

But here the noun is وجهي, so تعبان is correct.

الصبح means in the morning / this morning / morning-time, depending on context.

In Arabic, time expressions are often used without a preposition where English would use in:

• الصبح = in the morning
• اليوم = today
• بالليل = at night

So وجهي كان تعبان الصبح is normal. It means the face was tired in the morning.

The فـ means something like:

• so
• then
• and so
• as a result

It connects the two parts of the sentence:

• وجهي كان تعبان الصبح
• فغسلته

So the sense is: My face was tired in the morning, so I washed it.

It is a very common connector in Arabic.

The -ه is an attached object pronoun meaning him/it.

Here it refers back to وجهي = my face.

So:

• غسلت = I washed
• غسلته = I washed it

Because وجه is grammatically masculine, the pronoun is -ه.

This is very common in Arabic: once the object has already been mentioned, speakers often replace it with a pronoun instead of repeating the noun.

Yes, absolutely.

Both are possible:

• غسلت وجهي = I washed my face
• غسلته = I washed it

The version with -ه sounds more natural once وجهي has already been mentioned, because Arabic often avoids repeating the same noun right away.

So in this sentence, غسلته is a natural choice.

In Levantine, the everyday verb for to see is usually شاف / يشوف.

So:

• شاف = he saw
• شفت = I saw
• بشوف = I see / I’m seeing

The verb from رأى exists in more formal Arabic, but in everyday Levantine, شاف is much more common.

So شفت شعري is the normal colloquial way to say I saw my hair.

شعر means hair.

When you add -ي, it means my:

• شعر = hair
• شعري = my hair

So in شفت شعري, the word شعري is the object of the verb:

• شفت = I saw
• شعري = my hair

Together: I saw my hair.

In Levantine, بالمراية is the normal way to say in the mirror.

Literally, بـ often means in, with, or by, depending on context. With mirrors, Arabic commonly uses بـ where English uses in:

• شفت حالي بالمراية = I saw myself in the mirror
• شفت شعري بالمراية = I saw my hair in the mirror

So this is just the natural Arabic pattern.

Because Arabic often leaves out subject pronouns when the verb already shows who the subject is.

For example:

• غسلت already means I washed
• شفت already means I saw

So adding أنا is usually unnecessary unless you want emphasis or contrast.

This is very normal in Arabic and is one reason Arabic sentences can feel compact compared with English.

The word order is natural and straightforward for Levantine.

The sentence moves like this:

• topic: وجهي
• description in the past: كان تعبان
• time: الصبح
• result/action: فغسلته
• next action: وشفت شعري بالمراية

Arabic allows some flexibility in word order, but this version sounds natural and easy to follow.

A key point is that once وجهي has been introduced, the sentence can continue with pronouns and verbs without repeating everything. That makes the flow feel very Arabic.