اذا بدك، في بيض وجبنة بالفرن، بس لا تنسى تحط ملح.

A reasonable Levantine-style pronunciation is:

iza baddak, fi beid w jibne bil-forn, bas la tinsa tḥoṭṭ meleḥ.

A few quick notes:

• baddak may also sound like biddak, depending on the speaker.
• j in jibne is usually like the j in jam.
• fi has a long ee sound.
• meleḥ can vary a bit by region.

You do not need one perfect transliteration, because Levantine pronunciation differs from place to place.

Yes — in careful standard spelling, it is إذا.

But in everyday typing, texting, and informal writing, many Arabic speakers leave out hamzas, so اذا is very common. Both refer to the same word here.

So:

• إذا = more careful/standard spelling
• اذا = very common informal spelling

It literally breaks down like this:

• اذا = if
• بدك = you want / you need / you’d like

Together, اذا بدك means something like:

• if you want
• if you’d like
• if you want to

In everyday Levantine, this is a very common, natural way to make an offer sound soft and friendly.

Yes. In this sentence, بدك is addressed to one male.

Common forms are:

• بدك = to one male, pronounced roughly baddak / biddak
• بدكِ = to one female, pronounced baddik / biddik
• بدكن = to more than one person

In informal writing, people often just write بدك even when they mean the feminine form, and the pronunciation tells you which one it is.

Here, في means there is or there are.

So:

• في بيض وجبنة = there are eggs and cheese

This is a very important Levantine word. It often works as an existential marker, meaning it tells you that something exists or is available.

So in this sentence, في does not mean in. It means there is/there are.

Because they are being used indefinitely here — basically some eggs and cheese, not necessarily the eggs and the cheese already known to both speakers.

So:

• بيض وجبنة = eggs and cheese / some eggs and cheese
• البيض والجبنة = the eggs and the cheese

With food, leaving nouns indefinite like this is very natural.

بيض usually means eggs as a collective or food noun.

If you want to say one egg, you say:

• بيضة = one egg

So the contrast is:

• بيض = eggs
• بيضة = an egg

This is common in Arabic: sometimes the basic food word is collective, and the -ة form gives you one unit.

بالفرن means in the oven.

It is made from:

• بـ = in
• الفرن = the oven

So:

• بـ + الفرن = بالفرن

This kind of contraction is normal in Arabic. In context, بالفرن can mean literally in the oven, and with food it often implies that something is baking or sitting there ready.

It can mean both, depending on context.

In this sentence, it means but:

• ...بس لا تنسى... = ...but don’t forget...

In other sentences, بس can also mean:

• only
• just

So you always decide from context.

لا تنسى means don’t forget.

This is a negative command, formed with:

• لا = don’t
• تنسى = you forget

So literally it is don’t forget.

This form is addressed to one male. Other common forms are:

• لا تنسي = to one female
• لا تنسوا = to a group

Because Arabic does not use an infinitive in the same way English does.

In English, you say:

• don’t forget to put salt

In Levantine Arabic, after verbs like want, forget, know how, start, and similar verbs, you usually use another conjugated verb, not an infinitive.

So:

• تنسى تحط = literally something like forget, you put
• natural meaning = forget to put

This is completely normal Arabic structure.

The basic meaning of حط is put or place.

But with ingredients, it very naturally means add.

So:

• تحط ملح = put salt
• idiomatically in English = add salt

This is exactly the kind of verb Arabic speakers use in everyday cooking speech.

Arabic often does not need a separate word for some in cases like this.

So:

• تحط ملح literally = put salt
• natural English meaning = add some salt

The noun ملح is indefinite by itself, so the idea of some salt is already understood from context.

Here are the common changes:

To one woman:

إذا بدكِ، في بيض وجبنة بالفرن، بس لا تنسي تحطي ملح.

Approximate pronunciation: iza baddik, fi beid w jibne bil-forn, bas la tinsi tḥoṭṭi meleḥ.

To a group:

إذا بدكن، في بيض وجبنة بالفرن، بس لا تنسوا تحطوا ملح.

Approximate pronunciation: iza baddkon, fi beid w jibne bil-forn, bas la tinso tḥoṭṭo meleḥ.

So the main things that change are the verbs and بدك-type forms, to match who you are speaking to.