Word
صوت التلفزيون واطي، ومشان هيك ما فهمت الاخبار.
Meaning
The TV sound is low, and that is why I did not understand the news.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about صوت التلفزيون واطي، ومشان هيك ما فهمت الاخبار.
Is this sentence Modern Standard Arabic or Levantine Arabic?
It is Levantine Arabic, not Modern Standard Arabic.
Some clear clues are:
- واطي = low / quiet, a very colloquial word
- مشان هيك = because of that / so / that’s why, very common in Levantine
- ما فهمت for I didn’t understand, using dialect-style negation
- informal spelling like الاخبار instead of the fully standard الأخبار
A more MSA-style version would be something like:
- صوت التلفزيون منخفض، ولذلك لم أفهم الأخبار.
How would I pronounce this sentence?
A common Levantine-style pronunciation would be:
sōt et-tilfizyōn wāṭi, w-mishān hēk ma fhemet il-akhbār
A few notes:
- صوت sounds like sōt or sometimes closer to sawt
- التلفزيون is roughly et-tilfizyōn
- واطي is wāṭi
- مشان is mishān
- هيك is hēk
- فهمت here is often pronounced fhemet in Levantine
Pronunciation varies a bit by country and city, so you may hear small differences.
Why is there no word for is in صوت التلفزيون واطي?