هي فهمت السؤال غلط، ومشان هيك رجعت سألتني.

هي is often optional in Arabic, because the verb already carries subject information. But in colloquial Levantine, the written form فهمت can correspond to I understood, you understood, or she understood, depending on context and pronunciation. So adding هي makes it clear that the subject is she.

So both are possible, but هي فهمت... is clearer and very natural.

فهمت is the past tense of to understand. In this sentence it means she understood.

A useful comparison:

• فهم = he understood
• فهمت = can be she understood, and in other contexts can also be I understood or you understood

That is one reason the pronoun هي is helpful here.

Because السؤال means the question, with the definite article الـ.

So:

• سؤال = a question
• السؤال = the question

In this sentence, it is referring to a specific question already known in the context, so السؤال is the natural choice.

Here غلط means wrong / incorrectly.

In colloquial Arabic, words that are basically adjectives often get used in an adverb-like way. So:

• فهمت السؤال غلط = She understood the question wrong = She misunderstood the question

This is very common in speech. English often prefers incorrectly, but Levantine naturally uses غلط in this kind of structure.

مشان هيك is a very common Levantine expression meaning for that reason, because of that, or that’s why.

You can think of it like this:

• مشان = for / because of / for the sake of
• هيك = like this / like that

Together, مشان هيك points back to what was just said and gives the result: because of that or that’s why.

Arabic uses و very freely to connect clauses. It can sometimes feel like and, but in translation it may come out as so, and so, or sometimes nothing at all.

In this sentence:

• ..., ومشان هيك...

The real cause-and-effect meaning comes from مشان هيك. The و simply links the two parts in a natural spoken way.

So a smooth English rendering is:

• She misunderstood the question, so she asked me again.

Literally, رجعت comes from رجع, which means to return / go back. But in Levantine, رجع/رجعت + verb is very commonly used to mean do something again.

So:

• رجعت سألتني literally = she returned and asked me
• natural meaning = she asked me again

This is a very common colloquial pattern.

Another way to say again would be:

• سألتني مرة تانية = she asked me another time / again

But رجعت سألتني is extremely natural in Levantine.

It breaks down like this:

• سأل = asked
• -ت = past ending
• -ني = me

So سألتني means asked me. In this sentence, because the subject is already هي, it is understood as she asked me.

The -ني ending is a very common object suffix in Arabic:

• شافني = he saw me
• سمعني = he heard me
• سألني = he asked me

Here you have the feminine past form in context: سألتني = she asked me.

Yes, this is clearly colloquial Levantine.

Especially Levantine features here include:

• مشان هيك
• using غلط in an adverb-like way
• رجعت + verb to mean again

A more formal Arabic version might be something like:

هي فهمت السؤال بشكلٍ خاطئ، لذلك سألتني مرةً أخرى.

That said, the original sentence sounds very natural for everyday Levantine speech.

In Levantine, هيك often means like this, like that, or more loosely this way / that way. In the expression مشان هيك, it refers back to the previous situation.

So in this sentence, هيك does not mean a literal physical this. It means something more like that situation / what happened.

That is why مشان هيك works as because of that or that’s why.