الجارور يلي بالمطبخ ما عاد بيفتح، لانه القفل عطلان.

الجارور means the drawer.

A few useful notes:

• جارور = drawer
• الجارور = the drawer
• In many Levantine areas, this is a very common word.
• You may also hear other words regionally, but جارور is very normal and widely understood.

It’s masculine, which matters later in the sentence when the verb appears as بيفتح.

يلي is a very common Levantine relative word meaning something like:

• that
• which
• the one that
• sometimes just a linker for a description

So:

• الجارور يلي بالمطبخ = the drawer that’s in the kitchen / the drawer in the kitchen

In spoken Levantine, يلي is used a lot instead of more formal relative structures you might learn in MSA.

You may also see it written as:

• يلي
• اللي

Both are common in colloquial writing.

بالمطبخ is the colloquial way to say in the kitchen here.

It breaks down as:

• بـ = in / at
• المطبخ = the kitchen

So:

• بالمطبخ = in the kitchen

In Levantine, بـ is used very often where English would use in, at, or sometimes with depending on context.

You can also hear في المطبخ, but بالمطبخ sounds very natural in everyday speech.

In Arabic, especially in the present tense, the verb to be is usually not said.

So:

• يلي بالمطبخ literally looks like that in-the-kitchen
• but it means that is in the kitchen

This is completely normal.

So the phrase:

• الجارور يلي بالمطبخ

naturally means:

• the drawer that is in the kitchen
• or more naturally in English, the drawer in the kitchen

ما عاد means no longer or not anymore.

So:

• ما عاد بيفتح = it doesn’t open anymore / it no longer opens

This is a very common Levantine expression.

A few examples:

• ما عاد بدي = I don’t want anymore
• ما عاد يجي = he doesn’t come anymore
• ما عاد تشتغل = it doesn’t work anymore

In context, it often gives the idea that something used to happen before, but now it doesn’t.

بيفتح is the present/imperfect form meaning it opens or it is opening, depending on context.

Breakdown:

• بـ = a common present-tense marker in Levantine
• يفتح = he opens / it opens
• بيفتح = he opens / it opens in everyday Levantine usage

Why this form?

• الجارور is masculine singular
• so the verb agrees with it as he/it masculine singular
• therefore: بيفتح

So:

• الجارور ما عاد بيفتح = the drawer doesn’t open anymore

English uses it, but Arabic uses grammatical gender, so the verb is in the masculine singular form.

Good question. بيفتح is the active form, literally it opens, and that is very natural in Arabic for things like doors, drawers, windows, etc.

So:

• الباب ما عم بيفتح = the door isn’t opening
• الجارور ما عاد بيفتح = the drawer doesn’t open anymore

You could hear forms like بينفتح in some contexts, which are closer to it gets opened / it opens in a more passive-like sense, but بيفتح is extremely normal and idiomatic here.

In other words, Arabic often says this the same way English says:

• The door won’t open
• The drawer won’t open

لانه means because.

In Levantine, it is commonly pronounced something like:

• la2anno
• sometimes written لأنو or لأنه depending on spelling style

So:

• لانه القفل عطلان = because the lock is broken

In informal written Levantine, spelling is not fully standardized, so you may see several versions of the same word.

Yes. القفل means the lock.

Breakdown:

• قفل = lock
• القفل = the lock

Here it refers to the mechanism preventing the drawer from opening.

Depending on context, speakers might also use different words for locking mechanisms, but قفل is a standard and clear word.

عطلان means broken, faulty, out of order, or not working properly.

It often describes something mechanical or functional.

So:

• القفل عطلان = the lock is broken / faulty

This is slightly different from some other adjectives:

• مكسور = broken in the sense of physically broken
• خربان = ruined / broken / messed up
• عطلان = often emphasizes that something is not functioning properly

For a lock, عطلان sounds very natural because the idea is that the mechanism isn’t working.

Again, Arabic normally leaves out the present-tense to be.

So:

• القفل عطلان literally = the lock faulty
• natural English = the lock is faulty / broken

This is one of the most important patterns in Arabic:

• هو تعبان = he is tired
• البيت كبير = the house is big
• القفل عطلان = the lock is broken

No separate word for is is needed in the present tense.

Because both nouns are definite in context:

• الجارور = the drawer
• القفل = the lock

The sentence is talking about a specific drawer and its specific lock, not just any drawer or any lock.

So the definiteness is natural:

• the drawer in the kitchen
• the lock

Arabic often uses the in places where English also would, and sometimes even where English might be less explicit.

Yes, definitely. Spoken Levantine has lots of variation.

Some possible variants:

• الجارور اللي بالمطبخ ما عاد بيفتح، لأنه القفل عطلان
• درج المطبخ ما عاد بيفتح، لأنه القفل خربان
• الجارور تبع المطبخ ما عم يفتح، لأنه القفل عطلان

These differ in word choice or region, but the original sentence is very natural.

A few points of variation:

• يلي / اللي
• عطلان / خربان
• جارور / another regional word such as درج in some contexts

A natural broad Levantine-style pronunciation would be something like:

il-jaroor yalli bil-matbakh ma 3aad bifta7, la2anno il-2ifil 3aTlaan

Very roughly:

• الجارور → il-jaroor
• يلي → yalli or yilli
• بالمطبخ → bil-matbakh
• ما عاد → ma 3aad
• بيفتح → bifta7
• لانه → la2anno
• القفل → often something like il-2ifil
• عطلان → 3aTlaan

Of course, exact pronunciation changes by country, city, and speaker.