اذا بدك تقطع الشارع، امشي دغري لهديك الاشارة.

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Breakdown of اذا بدك تقطع الشارع، امشي دغري لهديك الاشارة.

• بده: to want
• شارع: street
• اذا: if

Questions & Answers about اذا بدك تقطع الشارع، امشي دغري لهديك الاشارة.

Is this sentence Modern Standard Arabic, or is it specifically Levantine?

It is specifically Levantine colloquial Arabic.

A few clear clues are:

• بدك = a very common Levantine way to say you want
• دغري = colloquial Levantine for straight / directly
• هديك = a colloquial demonstrative meaning that

In Modern Standard Arabic, the sentence would be phrased differently, for example with words like أردت or تعبر and تلك.

What does إذا do here, and why isn’t it لو?

إذا means if for a real or likely situation.

So here, إذا بدك تقطع الشارع means something like if you want to cross the street.

لو is usually used more for hypothetical, unreal, or contrary-to-fact situations. So إذا is the natural choice here because the speaker is giving a practical instruction for a real situation.

What exactly is بدك?

بدك means you want or sometimes you need, depending on context.

It is made of:

• بدّ = want / desire / need
• -ك = you singular

So:

• بدك = you want to a man
• بدِّك = you want to a woman
• بدكن = you all want

In this sentence, it is addressing one person, most likely masculine singular.