اذا ما فهمت الفكرة، المدير بيشرحها.

In Levantine, after إذا for a real condition, speakers very often use the past form even when the meaning in English is present or future.

So:

• إذا ما فهمت = if you don’t understand
• not necessarily if you didn’t understand in a past-time sense

This is a very common Arabic pattern. English usually keeps the present in this kind of sentence, but Levantine often uses the past form after إذا.

Here ما is the negative marker.

• فهمت = you understood / I understood, depending context
• ما فهمت = you didn’t understand / I didn’t understand

So إذا ما فهمت means if you don’t understand or more literally if you did not understand.

On its own, فهمت can be ambiguous in Levantine. It can mean:

• I understood
• you understood when speaking to one man

Context tells you which one is meant. In this sentence, the intended meaning is you.

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

• إذا ما فهمتي الفكرة...

بيشرحها breaks down like this:

• بـ = present/habitual marker
• يـ = he
• شرح = explain
• ها = it

So بيشرحها means he explains it or he’s explaining it, depending context.

In this sentence, it sounds like a general present or habitual result: if you do not understand, the manager explains it.

-ها means it, and it refers back to الفكرة.

That is because فكرة is a feminine singular noun in Arabic, so the object pronoun that refers to it is -ها.

So:

• الفكرة = the idea
• بيشرحها = he explains it

Even though English uses it, Arabic still keeps track of grammatical gender.

إذا is usually used for a real or likely condition.

• إذا = if, when the condition is realistic or expected
• لو = if, but more hypothetical, unlikely, or contrary to fact

Here the sentence is talking about a normal possible situation, so إذا is the natural choice.

بيشرحها gives a present/habitual sense. It sounds like a general rule or normal response:

• if you do not understand, the manager explains it

If you said رح يشرحها, that would sound more like a specific future event:

• the manager will explain it

So بيشرحها works well if the sentence means something like that’s what happens or that’s what he does.

No. المدير بيشرحها is very natural in Levantine, because subject-first order is common.

But Arabic word order is flexible, and you could also hear something like:

• إذا ما فهمت الفكرة، بيشرحها المدير

That version is also possible, though it can sound a bit more marked depending on context.

Using المدير explicitly helps make it clear who is doing the explaining.

الفكرة means the idea or the concept, depending context.

The الـ at the beginning is the definite article, so it is:

• الفكرة = the idea

not:

• فكرة = an idea / an idea in general

Sometimes you may hear present forms after إذا, depending on dialect and context, but إذا ما فهمت is a very common and natural Levantine way to express this kind of condition.

A rough difference is:

• إذا ما فهمت = if you don’t understand / if you fail to get it
• إذا ما بتفهم = can sound more habitual or descriptive, like if you don’t usually understand or if you’re not understanding

So for the sentence you were given, إذا ما فهمت is a very good choice.

If the person who may not understand is a woman, change فهمت to فهمتي:

• إذا ما فهمتي الفكرة، المدير بيشرحها.

If the manager is a woman, then المدير becomes المديرة, and the verb changes too:

• إذا ما فهمت الفكرة، المديرة بتشرحها.

If both are feminine:

• إذا ما فهمتي الفكرة، المديرة بتشرحها.

A rough Levantine pronunciation is:

iza ma fhemet il-fekra, il-mdiir byishraha

You may hear small regional differences, especially in the vowels, such as:

• el-fekra instead of il-fekra
• beyishraha instead of byishraha

Those differences are normal across Levantine varieties.