انا شلت الدفتر من على الطاولة ولقيت المفتاح تحته.

Yes. In Levantine Arabic, the verb already shows the subject, so شلت by itself means I picked up / I took away.

So:

• شلت الدفتر = I picked up the notebook
• انا شلت الدفتر = I picked up the notebook / I picked up the notebook

Including انا is optional. Speakers often add it for:

• emphasis
• clarity
• contrast

So this sentence would still be perfectly natural as:

شلت الدفتر من على الطاولة ولقيت المفتاح تحته.

شلت comes from the Levantine verb شال / يشيل.

Its basic idea is:

• to lift
• to carry
• to remove
• to take away
• to pick up

In this sentence, because of من على الطاولة (from on the table / off the table), the most natural meaning is:

• I picked up the notebook
• I took the notebook off the table

So شلت is not just a dictionary meaning like carried; the context makes it sound more like picked up / removed.

That -ت marks first person singular in the past tense.

So:

• شال = he picked up
• شلت = I picked up

and:

• لقي = he found
• لقيت = I found

This is very common in spoken Arabic. In this sentence, both verbs are past tense and both have I as the subject:

• شلت = I picked up
• لقيت = I found

من على literally means from on. In natural English, that usually becomes off or from on top of.

So:

• من على الطاولة = off the table / from on the table

This combination is very common in Levantine Arabic. It clearly expresses movement away from a surface.

So the sentence is saying the notebook was on the table, and then it was removed from that surface.

A very natural spoken contraction is:

• من عالطاولة

which is the same as من على الطاولة.

It has two parts:

• و = and
• لقيت = I found

So:

• ولقيت = and I found

In connected speech, Arabic often attaches و directly to the next word, so it is written as one unit.

In this sentence, و links the two past actions:

1. I picked up the notebook
2. and I found the key under it

Yes. لقيت is a very common Levantine way to say I found.

The verb is لقي. Depending on context, it can mean:

• to find
• sometimes to meet

In this sentence, because the object is المفتاح (the key), the meaning is clearly found.

Compared with Modern Standard Arabic, learners may know وجدت for I found, but in everyday Levantine, لقيت is very common and natural.

تحته means under it or under him, depending on context.

It is made of:

• تحت = under
• ـه = him / it (masculine singular)

So literally:

• تحته = under him/it

In this sentence, it means under it.

It refers to الدفتر (the notebook), not الطاولة (the table).

Why? Because Arabic marks gender here:

• دفتر is masculine
• طاولة is feminine

The pronoun in تحته is masculine singular (ـه), so it matches الدفتر.

That means:

• لقيت المفتاح تحته = I found the key under it
  where it = the notebook

If the sentence meant under the table, it would be:

• تحتها

because طاولة is feminine.

This is actually a very useful feature of Arabic, because it removes an ambiguity that English has.

In Arabic, prepositions often take attached pronouns.

So instead of saying something like:

• تحت + it as two separate words,

Arabic combines them:

• تحته = under it / under him
• تحتها = under her / under it (feminine)
• تحتي = under me

This is extremely common with prepositions in Arabic. You should think of تحته as one normal grammatical unit: under + him/it.

Yes, very natural.

The structure is straightforward:

• انا شلت الدفتر من على الطاولة
• ولقيت المفتاح تحته

This is a normal way to narrate two actions in sequence:

1. I picked up the notebook from the table
2. and I found the key under it

Levantine often uses this kind of simple past-tense chain with و to tell what happened next.

A broad, helpful pronunciation guide would be:

ana shelt id-daftar min ʿala t-taawle w-laʔeet il-miftaaḥ taḥto

A few notes:

• الدفتر is often pronounced something like id-daftar
• الطاولة is often pronounced it-taawle or t-taawle
• لقيت may sound like laʔeet in many accents
• تحته is often pronounced taḥto

You do not need to pronounce it exactly this way from day one, but these are the kinds of spoken Levantine sounds a learner will hear.

Yes, it is clearly colloquial Levantine.

A few Levantine features here are:

• شلت from شال in the sense of picked up / removed
• لقيت for I found
• the natural spoken use of من على
• the overall conversational style

A more formal or Standard Arabic sentence would likely use different vocabulary and a less conversational rhythm.

So this sentence is good everyday spoken Arabic, not textbook formal Arabic.

Grammatically, yes, because ـه can mean him or it. Arabic does not have a separate non-human it pronoun in this form.

So تحته can mean:

• under him
• under it (masculine noun)

But in this sentence, the context strongly points to under it, and specifically under the notebook.

So the intended meaning is clear from context plus noun gender.