اجا طرد لاختي عالبريد، وهي لازم تستلمه اليوم.

A package for my sister arrived at the post office, and she has to pick it up today.

Breakdown of اجا طرد لاختي عالبريد، وهي لازم تستلمه اليوم.

• ي: my
• ال: the
• اليوم: today
• اخت: sister

Questions & Answers about اجا طرد لاختي عالبريد، وهي لازم تستلمه اليوم.

What does اجا mean, and why isn’t it written as جاء?

اجا means came or arrived in Levantine Arabic.

It’s the everyday colloquial equivalent of more formal جاء. In Levantine, people commonly say إجا/اجا instead. It can be used for people, but also for things arriving, like letters, parcels, or news.

Also, in casual dialect writing, hamzas are often omitted, so you may see اجا instead of إجا.

Why does the sentence say اجا طرد instead of starting with طرد?

Because verb-first word order is very common in Arabic, especially when introducing something new.

So اجا طرد is literally like arrived a package, which is a very natural Arabic way to say a package arrived.

If you said طرد اجا, that would sound more marked or emphasize the package.

What exactly does طرد mean here?

Here, طرد means package, parcel, or postal package.

It’s also a masculine noun, and that matters later in the sentence because the pronoun in تستلمه refers back to طرد.

What does لاختي mean, exactly?