البرتقال والموز مو على الطاولة، بالتلاجة.

In Levantine Arabic, the present-tense verb to be is usually omitted.

So instead of saying something like The oranges and the bananas are on the table, Arabic just says the equivalent of:

The oranges and the bananas — on the table

When you negate that kind of sentence, you use a negation word like مو:

• البرتقال والموز على الطاولة = The oranges and bananas are on the table
• البرتقال والموز مو على الطاولة = The oranges and bananas are not on the table

So the sentence is completely normal without a separate word for are.

مو means not here.

It is commonly used in Levantine to negate nominal sentences, especially sentences with no present-tense to be.

So:

• مو على الطاولة = not on the table
• مو بالتلاجة = not in the fridge

In this sentence, مو is negating the location:

• البرتقال والموز مو على الطاولة = The oranges and bananas are not on the table

Yes. In many Levantine varieties, مش is also very common, and in some places more common than مو.

So you may hear:

• البرتقال والموز مش على الطاولة، بالتلاجة.

Both are understandable and natural in Levantine, though regional preference varies.
Very roughly:

• مو is especially common in Syrian-style speech
• مش is widespread across the Levant

As a learner, it is good to recognize both.

Because Arabic often uses the definite article in places where English does not.

Here, البرتقال and الموز can mean:

• the oranges and the bananas
• or more generally, the oranges and bananas in the situation being discussed

This is very normal in Arabic, especially when talking about known items in the context.
So even if English might sometimes say just oranges and bananas, Arabic often uses الـ.

Grammatically, البرتقال is often used as a collective or mass noun, similar to how English can say orange or oranges depending on context.

In everyday speech, fruit names are often used this way:

• البرتقال = oranges / orange fruit
• الموز = bananas / banana fruit

So even though English may prefer a plural translation, Arabic may use the fruit name as a category or collective noun.

Because the two prepositions express different kinds of location:

• على = on
• بـ here = in / inside / at

So:

• على الطاولة = on the table
• بالتلاجة = in the fridge

In Levantine, بـ is very commonly used for location, often where English uses in or at. So بالتلاجة is a normal colloquial way to say in the fridge.

In Levantine, بـ often does the job that in does in English.

So both of these can point to location:

• بالتلاجة
• في التلاجة

But بالتلاجة is very natural and common in colloquial speech.

Literally, it is:

• بـ + التلاجة
• in + the fridge

So this is not strange or irregular; it is just standard colloquial Levantine usage.

The comma shows a pause and a contrast:

• not on the table, in the fridge

In full English, you might say:

• The oranges and bananas aren’t on the table; they’re in the fridge.

But in Levantine, it is very natural to leave out repeated material when the meaning is obvious. So the second part is shortened.

You can think of it as:

• البرتقال والموز مو على الطاولة، [هني] بالتلاجة.

The pronoun هني / هنّ (they) is omitted because the context already makes it clear.

Yes, absolutely.

You could say:

• البرتقال والموز مو على الطاولة، هني بالتلاجة.

That means the same thing, but it is a little more explicit:
They’re in the fridge.

Leaving the pronoun out is also very natural, especially in conversational speech when the contrast is clear.

In everyday speech, على is often reduced from ʿalā to something more like ʿa before a noun.

So على الطاولة is often pronounced more like:

• عَ الطاولة
• or with the article joined: عالطاولة

Because ط is a sun letter, the l of الـ assimilates in pronunciation. So it sounds roughly like:

• ʿaṭ-ṭāwle

That is why learners often see colloquial spellings like عالطاولة.

It is typically pronounced something like:

• bit-tallāje
• or bittallāje

Here is why:

• بـ
  • الـ
    • تلاجة
• the ت is a sun letter
• so the l of الـ is not pronounced separately
• the ت gets doubled in sound

So the pronunciation is closer to bit-tallāje than bi al-talāje.

Yes, it is natural.

A very conversational pronunciation might look more like:

• البرتقال والموز مو عالطاولة، بالتلاجة.

That is the same sentence, just written in a way that reflects spoken Levantine more closely.

You might also hear small regional variations, such as:

• مش instead of مو
• بالثلاجة instead of بالتلاجة
• هني بالتلاجة with the pronoun included

But the sentence you gave is a normal, natural Levantine-style sentence.