حطيت الشوكة والسكينة عالطاولة، بس نسيت الملعقة بالمطبخ.

حطيت means I put or I placed.

It comes from the Levantine verb حطّ = to put / to set down. The ending -يت shows first person singular in the past, so the whole form means I put.

This is a very common everyday verb in Levantine. In Modern Standard Arabic, learners often meet وضعت instead, but in spoken Levantine حطّ is much more natural.

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

So:

• حطيت = I put
• نسيت = I forgot

Because the verb already tells you it is I, you do not need أنا.
You can add أنا if you want emphasis or contrast:

• أنا حطيت... = I am the one who put...

But in a normal sentence, leaving it out sounds very natural.

Because in Arabic, when two nouns are both definite, each one usually takes its own definite article.

So:

• الشوكة والسكينة = the fork and the knife

That is the normal pattern. Arabic usually does not let one الـ cover both nouns the way English sometimes feels like it does.

The same idea appears in the rest of the sentence too:

• الملعقة = the spoon
• الطاولة = the table
• المطبخ = the kitchen

Because of the sun letter / moon letter rule.

In Levantine, the definite article is often pronounced more like il- than al-. But before certain consonants, the l sound assimilates.

In this sentence:

• الشوكة sounds like ish-shōke
• السكينة sounds like is-sikkīne
• الطاولة sounds like iṭ-ṭāwle or, after عَ, ʿaṭ-ṭāwle

That happens because ش, س, and ط are sun letters.

But with م in:

• الملعقة
• المطبخ

the l stays, because م is a moon letter.

عالطاولة is a common Levantine contraction of على الطاولة.

So:

• على = on
• على الطاولة = on the table
• عالطاولة = the same thing in natural spoken Levantine

This shortening is extremely common in speech.
Because ط is a sun letter, the pronunciation becomes roughly ʿaṭ-ṭāwle.

So the meaning does not change. It is just a more natural spoken form.

Because in Levantine, a final ة is very often pronounced -e.

So you will often hear:

• شوكة → shōke
• سكينة → sikkīne
• طاولة → ṭāwle

This is one of the most noticeable differences between spoken Levantine and the careful pronunciation many learners first see in dictionaries or in Modern Standard Arabic.

Here بس means but.

So:

• ...، بس نسيت... = ..., but I forgot...

This is a very common Levantine word.
Be aware that بس can also mean only, just, or enough, depending on context.

In this sentence, because it connects two contrasting ideas, it clearly means but.

It literally means I forgot the spoon in the kitchen, but in natural English the idea is usually:

I left the spoon behind in the kitchen.

Arabic often uses نسي this way when someone forgets an object somewhere.

So the point is not usually that the speaker was physically in the kitchen while forgetting.
The point is that the spoon was left there.

In Levantine, بـ is very commonly used for location, with the sense of in or at.

So:

• بالمطبخ = in the kitchen
• literally بـ + المطبخ

This is very natural in spoken Levantine.

You can also hear في المطبخ, and it is perfectly understandable, but بالمطبخ is especially common in everyday speech.

Yes, سكينة is a very common everyday Levantine word for knife.

A learner who knows Modern Standard Arabic may expect سكين, but in Levantine سكينة is extremely normal in speech.

So in this sentence:

• الشوكة = the fork
• السكينة = the knife
• الملعقة = the spoon

Starting with the verb is very natural in Arabic, especially when telling what happened.

So:

• حطيت الشوكة والسكينة... = natural narrative style
• أنا حطيت الشوكة والسكينة... = also possible, but with more emphasis on I

Both are correct.
The version in your sentence sounds very natural and conversational.

One common Levantine-style pronunciation would be roughly:

ḥaṭṭēt ish-shōke wis-sikkīne ʿaṭ-ṭāwle, bas nsīt il-malʿaʔa bil-maṭbakh.

A few notes:

• الشوكة → ish-shōke
• والسكينة often flows as wis-sikkīne
• عالطاولة → ʿaṭ-ṭāwle
• نسيت is often said as nsīt
• بالمطبخ → bil-maṭbakh

Exact pronunciation varies by region, but this gives you the general Levantine sound of the sentence.