الكهربجي جاب سلك جديد وقال انو سلك الضو القديم لازم يتغير.

الكهربجي means the electrician.

It is a very common colloquial Levantine word for someone who works with electricity. The ending -جي is a common colloquial ending used for occupations or people associated with something.

• كهربجي = electrician in everyday speech
• كهربائي = more formal or closer to Standard Arabic

So الكهربجي sounds natural and spoken.

جاب is the past tense of يجيب, which means to bring.

So:

• جاب = he brought
• يجيب = he brings / will bring

In colloquial Arabic, جاب is extremely common and can also sometimes mean got or fetched, depending on context.

Because سلك جديد means a new wire, not the new wire.

Arabic often uses an indefinite noun when introducing something for the first time.

• سلك جديد = a new wire
• السلك الجديد = the new wire

Here, the electrician brought a new wire, so the indefinite form is the natural choice.

No. They refer to two different wires.

• سلك جديد = the new wire the electrician brought
• سلك الضو القديم = the old light wire that was already there

So the sentence contrasts the new wire with the old wire that needs replacing.

انو means that.

It is a very common Levantine way to introduce a clause after verbs like قال.

So:

• وقال انو... = and he said that...

In more formal Arabic, you would often see أن or إنه instead. In Levantine, انو or إنو is very common in speech.

Literally, سلك الضو means the wire of the light.

This is an idafa structure, which is very common in Arabic. In natural English, it would be something like:

• the light wire
• the electrical wire for the light
• the lighting wire

The important grammar point is that in an idafa:

• the first noun usually does not take ال
• the second noun shows whether the whole phrase is definite

So:

• سلك الضو = the light wire
• not السلك الضو

Because Arabic adjectives come after the noun phrase they describe.

Here, سلك الضو is one noun phrase, and القديم describes that whole phrase.

So:

• سلك الضو القديم = the old light wire

Also, القديم has ال because the noun phrase is definite.

A useful pattern is:

• بيت الولد الكبير = the boy’s big house
• سلك الضو القديم = the old light wire

The adjective comes after the full idafa phrase, not in the middle.

Yes. الضو is the colloquial Levantine form of الضوء.

Both mean the light, but in everyday speech the final hamza is usually dropped or simplified.

So:

• الضوء = Standard Arabic
• الضو = everyday Levantine

This is a very normal dialect feature.

لازم means something like must, has to, or needs to.

In Levantine, لازم is often followed directly by a present-tense verb:

• لازم يروح = he has to go
• لازم نشتري = we have to buy
• لازم يتغير = it has to be changed

So لازم does not behave exactly like an English modal verb, but the meaning is very similar.

يتغير literally means changes or gets changed, and in context it often has a passive-like sense.

Here, لازم يتغير means:

• it has to be changed
• it needs replacing

Levantine often uses this kind of verb naturally instead of a formal passive construction.

If you wanted to make the agent more explicit, you could say something like:

• لازم يغيّروه = they need to change it

But لازم يتغير is very natural when the focus is on the wire itself, not on who will do the action.

One rough pronunciation is:

il-kahrabji jaab salak jdiid w-ʔaal innu salak iḍ-ḍaw il-ʔadiim laazem yitghayyar

A few helpful notes:

• جديد is often pronounced more like jdiid or jdeed in fast speech
• انو is often pronounced innu or enno, depending on the region
• الضو may sound like ḍaw or ḍo
• exact pronunciation varies across Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine

Several parts are strongly colloquial or dialectal:

• الكهربجي instead of more formal الكهربائي
• انو instead of أن or إنه
• الضو instead of الضوء
• the overall lack of case endings, which is normal in spoken Arabic
• لازم يتغير as a very natural spoken structure

A more formal version might look something like:

الكهربائي أحضر سلكًا جديدًا وقال إن سلك الضوء القديم يجب أن يُغيَّر

So the original sentence is very natural spoken Levantine, not formal Standard Arabic.