هاي الشقة اكبر من هديك الشقة.

In Levantine Arabic, present-tense sentences often do not use a verb equivalent to is/are.

So:

هاي الشقة اكبر من هديك الشقة
literally looks like: This apartment bigger than that apartment

But the meaning is naturally: This apartment is bigger than that apartment.

This is very normal in Arabic. In the present tense, the to be verb is usually just understood.

هاي means this and is used with a feminine singular noun.

Since شقة (apartment) is feminine, هاي is the right form here:

• هاي الشقة = this apartment

In Levantine, you may also hear other forms depending on region, such as هيدي for this.

In Arabic, every noun has grammatical gender, and شقة is a feminine noun.

That affects words connected to it, especially demonstratives like:

• هاي الشقة = this apartment
• هديك الشقة = that apartment

So even though English says apartment without grammatical gender, Arabic requires you to know whether the noun is masculine or feminine.

هديك means that for a feminine singular noun.

So:

• هديك الشقة = that apartment

Like هاي, this is a Levantine form. Regional pronunciation and spelling can vary a bit, but the function is the same.

The pattern is:

أكبر من = bigger than

Here:

• أكبر = bigger
• من = than

So:

• أكبر من هديك الشقة = bigger than that apartment

This is a very common Arabic comparative structure:

• أصغر من = smaller than
• أحلى من = nicer/prettier than
• أسرع من = faster than

This is a very common learner question.

In Arabic, comparative forms like أكبر often stay in this fixed elative/comparative form, even when the noun being described is feminine.

So although شقة is feminine, you still say:

• هاي الشقة أكبر = This apartment is bigger

Not كبيرة and not a feminine version of أكبر here.

Compare:

• هاي الشقة كبيرة = This apartment is big
• هاي الشقة أكبر من هديك الشقة = This apartment is bigger than that apartment

So كبيرة is a regular adjective (big), while أكبر is the comparative (bigger).

Yes, you often can say:

هاي الشقة أكبر من هديك

and it would mean This apartment is bigger than that one.

But repeating الشقة makes the sentence extra clear:

هاي الشقة أكبر من هديك الشقة
= This apartment is bigger than that apartment

In everyday speech, both are possible. The repeated noun can sound clearer or more explicit, especially for learners or when there could be any ambiguity.

Good question. In Levantine Arabic, it is very common to put the demonstrative before the noun:

• هاي الشقة = this apartment
• هديك الشقة = that apartment

This is different from the pattern many learners first see in Modern Standard Arabic, where a structure like الشقة هذه may appear.

So for Levantine, demonstrative + noun is the normal pattern here.

Because ش is a sun letter, the ل in ال is not pronounced clearly as l.

So الشقة is pronounced more like:

ish-shaqqa or esh-shaqqa
(depending on accent)

This happens because the ال assimilates to the following consonant.

So the full sentence may sound roughly like:

haay ish-shaqqa akbar min hadeek ish-shaqqa

The structure is:

هاي الشقة + أكبر + من + هديك الشقة

which breaks down as:

• هاي الشقة = this apartment
• أكبر = bigger
• من = than
• هديك الشقة = that apartment

So the overall order is:

this apartment + bigger + than + that apartment

This is very close to English in meaning, except that Arabic leaves out the present-tense is.

Yes. Depending on the region, you may hear slightly different demonstratives. For example:

• هاي الشقة أكبر من هديك الشقة
• هيدي الشقة أكبر من هديك الشقة

Both are Levantine-type ways of saying This apartment is bigger than that apartment, though the exact form depends on local dialect.

The key grammar stays the same:

• a demonstrative for this
• the noun شقة
• the comparative أكبر
• من for than
• a demonstrative for that

Yes. من is a very common Arabic word and can mean from in many contexts.

But in comparative sentences, it means than:

• أكبر من = bigger than
• أطول من = taller than
• أرخص من = cheaper than

So in this sentence, من should definitely be understood as than, not from.