المدربة تبعي بتقول انو الرياضة منيحة اذا الواحد كان زعلان او زهقان.

المدربة is the feminine form of trainer / coach. The ending ـة usually marks a feminine noun.

So this sentence tells you that the trainer is a woman.

• masculine: المدرب
• feminine: المدربة

If the trainer were male, you would expect المدرب تبعي instead.

This is a very common Levantine way to show possession.

The pattern is:

noun + تبع + pronoun suffix

So:

• المدربة تبعي = my trainer
• literally, something like the trainer belonging to me

You could also say مدربتي, and that also means my trainer. But المدربة تبعي sounds very natural and colloquial in Levantine.

Also, when Arabic uses the تبع possession pattern, the noun usually stays definite, so المدربة keeps الـ.

One more note: in some Levantine varieties, people may also say تبعتي with feminine nouns. Usage varies by region, but تبعي here is perfectly normal colloquial Levantine.

Great question. In Levantine, بتقول can mean either:

• she says
• you say to one female

So the form by itself is ambiguous.

Here, the subject is already stated: المدربة تبعي. Since المدربة is feminine singular, بتقول must mean she says.

You can think of the form like this:

• بـ = present / habitual marker
• تـ = feminine singular in this pattern
• قول = the verb root

So in context, المدربة تبعي بتقول = my trainer says.

انو means that.

It introduces the clause after بتقول:

• بتقول انو... = she says that...

This is a very common Levantine word. You may also see it written as إنو. Spelling in dialect is often flexible.

So:

• قالت إنو / انو = she said that
• بتقول إنو / انو = she says that

Because الرياضة is grammatically feminine, and the adjective agrees with it.

• منيح = good (masculine)
• منيحة = good (feminine)

Since the sentence has الرياضة, the adjective becomes منيحة.

So:

• الأكل منيح = the food is good
• الرياضة منيحة = exercise is good

It can mean both, depending on context.

In everyday Levantine, الرياضة can refer to:

• sports in general
• exercise
• working out / physical activity

In this sentence, it most naturally sounds like exercise or physical activity, because the idea is that it helps when someone feels bad or bored.

In Levantine, الواحد often means:

• a person
• someone
• one
• sometimes even generic you

So:

اذا الواحد كان زعلان
means something like
if a person is sad / if someone is sad / if you’re sad

It is a very common conversational way to speak generally about people.

It does not literally mean the one in a strict English sense here. It is much more idiomatic than that.

This is a very common thing in spoken Arabic.

In a sentence like:

اذا الواحد كان زعلان او زهقان

كان does not have to be translated as a simple English past tense. Here it helps describe a state or situation someone may be in:

• if someone is sad
• if someone happens to be sad
• if someone is feeling sad

So even though كان literally comes from was, in this kind of conditional sentence it often sounds natural in Arabic where English would just use the present.

You can also hear:

اذا الواحد زعلان او زهقان

That is also natural, just a bit more direct.

They are not the same feeling.

• زعلان = upset, sad, bothered, emotionally down
• زهقان = bored, fed up, sick of things

So:

• زعلان is more emotional
• زهقان is more about boredom or frustration with monotony

A person can be one or both.

Yes. If you mean you specifically, you would usually say كنت with the right adjective form.

For a man:

المدربة تبعي بتقول انو الرياضة منيحة اذا كنت زعلان او زهقان.

For a woman:

المدربة تبعي بتقول انو الرياضة منيحة اذا كنتِ زعلانة او زهقانة.

So الواحد is generic, but كنت makes it directly about you.

Several things make it clearly Levantine / colloquial:

• تبعي for possession
• بتقول with the present marker بـ
• انو for that
• منيحة as a common colloquial adjective
• الواحد used in a conversational generic sense

A more MSA-style version would be something like:

مدربتي تقول إن الرياضة جيدة إذا كان المرء حزينًا أو يشعر بالملل.

So the sentence you were given is very natural spoken Levantine, not formal written Arabic.