طفيت الضو وطفيت المكيف قبل ما ننام.

A common broad Levantine pronunciation would be:

ṭaffēt eḍ-ḍaw w ṭaffēt il-mkayyef ʔabel ma nnam

A few notes:

• طفيت is usually pronounced ṭaffēt.
• الضو is pronounced something like eḍ-ḍaw or eḍ-ḍo, depending on region.
• و is just w = and.
• قبل may sound like ʔabel, abel, or qabel depending on the dialect.
• ننام sounds like nnam, with a doubled n sound.

طفيت means I turned off.

It is the 1st person singular past form of the Levantine verb طفّى / طفى, which means:

• to turn off
• to switch off
• to put out (like a light or fire)

So:

• طفيت الضو = I turned off the light
• طفيت المكيف = I turned off the air conditioner

You may also see it written as طفّيت. Colloquial spelling is often less fixed than Standard Arabic spelling.

Because this is Levantine Arabic, not Standard Arabic.

In Levantine, people commonly say ضو for light, instead of Standard Arabic ضوء. Dialects often simplify both pronunciation and spelling.

So:

• Standard Arabic: الضوء
• Levantine: الضو

This is a very normal everyday dialect form.

Because ض is a sun letter.

In Arabic, when الـ comes before a sun letter, the l sound assimilates to the next consonant. So الضو is not pronounced al-ḍaw. It is pronounced more like:

• eḍ-ḍaw
• or iḍ-ḍaw

So the ض gets doubled in pronunciation.

This is the same kind of thing you see in words like:

• الشمس → ash-shams
• الدار → ad-daar

المكيف means the air conditioner.

A common pronunciation is:

il-mkayyef or el-mkayyef

Unlike الضو, the ل of الـ is still pronounced here, because م is a moon letter, not a sun letter.

So:

• الضو → the l disappears in pronunciation
• المكيف → the l stays

Yes, you could also say:

طفيت الضو والمكيف قبل ما ننام

That is perfectly natural.

Repeating طفيت can do a few things:

• make the sentence clearer
• sound a bit more deliberate
• emphasize that both things were turned off

So both are good:

• طفيت الضو والمكيف
• طفيت الضو وطفيت المكيف

The repeated version is a little more explicit.

قبل ما means before when it is followed by a verb.

So:

• قبل ما ننام = before we sleep / before we went to sleep

Here, ما is not negation. It does not mean not in this sentence.

It is just part of the common Levantine structure:

قبل ما + verb

Examples:

• قبل ما روح = before I go
• قبل ما تاكل = before you eat
• قبل ما ننام = before we sleep

Because after قبل ما, Levantine normally uses the imperfect form of the verb.

So even if the whole situation happened in the past, Arabic still says:

• قبل ما ننام

Literally, this is closer to before we sleep, but in English the natural translation is often:

• before we went to sleep

So the tense you use in English translation does not always match the form used in Arabic.

That is a very common learner question.

In Levantine, the بـ prefix often marks the regular present or habitual form, such as:

• بننام = we sleep / we usually sleep

But after structures like قبل ما, the verb usually appears without بـ.

So:

• قبل ما ننام = correct here
• قبل ما بننام = not the normal choice in this structure

This is similar to how Levantine often drops بـ after certain particles or verbs.

Because the subject changes.

• طفيت = I turned off
• ننام = we sleep

So the speaker is saying that they turned off the light and AC, but they and someone else went to sleep.

That is completely natural.

If the speaker meant only themselves, they would say something like:

• قبل ما نام = before I sleep / before I went to sleep

So the sentence is not inconsistent; it just has two different subjects for two different actions.