اذا ما عرفت مكان الاجتماع، اسال موظف الاستقبال.

إذا means if, and ما negates the verb that follows.

So:

• إذا = if
• ما عرفت = you don’t know / you didn’t manage to figure out

Together, إذا ما عرفت means if you don’t know.

In Levantine, إذا ما is a very common way to make a negative if clause.

That is very normal in Arabic.

After إذا, Arabic often uses a past/perfect form to talk about a future or general condition. So even though عرفت is formally a past form, the whole phrase can still mean:

• if you don’t know
• if you happen not to know
• if you can’t figure out

In more everyday Levantine, you may also hear:

• إذا ما بتعرف...
• إذا مش عارف...

All of these can express the same basic idea.

It is understandable in Levantine, but it sounds a little neutral/formal rather than very casual.

A more everyday Levantine version might be:

• إذا ما عرفت وين الاجتماع، اسأل موظف الاستقبال
• إذا ما بتعرف وين الاجتماع، اسأل موظف الاستقبال
• إذا مش عارف وين الاجتماع، اسأل موظف الاستقبال

The biggest thing that makes your sentence feel a bit more formal is مكان الاجتماع. In casual speech, many speakers would simply say وين الاجتماع = where the meeting is.

A reasonable Levantine-style pronunciation is:

iza ma ʿireft makān il-ijtimāʿ, isʾal muwazzaf il-istiqbāl

A few notes:

• إذا is often pronounced iza or spelled إزا in colloquial writing.
• عرفت here is roughly ʿireft
• اسأل is roughly is'al
• الاجتماع is roughly il-ijtimāʿ
• الاستقبال is roughly il-istiqbāl

You do not need to pronounce it in a super-formal way unless you want a more standard Arabic sound.

مكان الاجتماع literally means the place/location of the meeting, which in natural English is the meeting location or where the meeting is.

This is an iḍāfa structure, often called a possessive/genitive construction:

• مكان = place / location
• الاجتماع = the meeting

So:

• مكان الاجتماع = the meeting’s location / the location of the meeting

In an iḍāfa, the first noun usually does not take ال. The definiteness comes from the second noun. Since الاجتماع is definite, the whole phrase is definite.

Yes, in this context it means the receptionist or the reception staff member.

Literally:

• موظف = employee
• الاستقبال = reception

So the phrase literally means reception employee, but in normal English we would usually just say receptionist.

If you wanted to refer specifically to a female receptionist, you could say:

• موظفة الاستقبال

The more correct spelling is اسأل, with a hamza.

However, in casual typing, many native speakers leave hamzas out, so you will often see:

• اسأل → careful spelling
• اسال → casual spelling

They mean the same thing.

The pronunciation is still approximately is'al, and it means ask!

The imperative اسأل is the masculine singular form, so strictly speaking it is directed to one male.

If you were speaking to a woman, you would say:

• اسألي موظف الاستقبال

A useful detail: عرفت without vowel marks can represent both:

• عرفتَ = you knew (masculine singular)
• عرفتِ = you knew (feminine singular)

Since normal Arabic writing usually leaves out short vowels, the exact form is often understood from context.

In Levantine, both ما and مش are common, but they are used a little differently.

Here, ما is negating a verb directly:

• إذا ما عرفت = if you don’t know

But with مش, speakers often use an adjective or active participle:

• إذا مش عارف = if you’re not sure / if you don’t know

So both are possible in everyday Levantine, but the structure changes:

• ما + verb
• مش + adjective/participle

That is why إذا ما عرفت sounds natural.

Yes, and in everyday Levantine that is often more natural.

Compare:

• إذا ما عرفت مكان الاجتماع = if you don’t know the location of the meeting
• إذا ما عرفت وين الاجتماع = if you don’t know where the meeting is

The second version sounds more conversational. The first one is still correct and clear, but slightly more formal or written in tone.