هي سامحت اختها بعد ما اعتذرتلها وحكت معها شوي.

In Levantine, the verb سامحت already means she forgave, so هي is not strictly necessary.

Here, هي is used to:

• make the subject extra clear
• set up the topic
• sometimes add a slight sense of contrast or emphasis

So both are possible:

• هي سامحت اختها...
• سامحت اختها...

Both are natural, but the version with هي feels a bit more explicit.

سامحت means she forgave.

It comes from the verb سامح = to forgive.

Breakdown:

• سامح = the verb stem
• -ت = past tense marker for I / you / she, depending context
• here, because the subject is هي, it means she forgave

In Levantine pronunciation, it is often said like saamahet or sāmaḥet.

اختها means her sister.

Breakdown:

• اخت / أخت = sister
• -ها = her

So:

• اختها = her sister

The spelling without the hamza, اختها, is very common in casual Levantine writing. You may also see أختها. Both refer to the same word.

بعد ما means after or after the fact that.

In this sentence, it introduces the action that happened before the forgiveness:

• بعد ما اعتذرتلها وحكت معها شوي
• after she apologized to her and talked with her a little

This is a very common Levantine way to say after someone did something.

اعتذرتلها = she apologized to her

Breakdown:

• اعتذرت = she apologized
• لها / لـ + ها = to her

So literally:

• اعتذرتلها = apologized-to-her

This is very typical Arabic structure: the preposition لـ attaches directly to the pronoun.

Grammatically, اعتذرتلها tells you:

• the subject is a feminine singular she
• -لها means to her

So it means:

• she apologized to her

In context, the most natural interpretation is:

• the sister apologized to the first woman

That is why the whole sentence means something like:

• She forgave her sister after her sister apologized to her and talked with her a little

But strictly speaking, the Arabic by itself can feel slightly ambiguous unless context makes it clear which she is which. That kind of pronoun ambiguity is common in natural speech.

Yes. In Levantine, حكى very commonly means:

• to talk
• to speak
• to say

So:

• حكت = she talked / she spoke
• معها = with her

Together:

• حكت معها = she talked with her

This is very normal Levantine usage. In more formal Arabic, learners often expect other verbs for talk, but in Levantine حكى is extremely common.

شوي means:

• a little
• a bit
• for a short while

In this sentence, it modifies حكت معها:

• حكت معها شوي
• she talked with her a little
• she talked with her for a bit

It is a very common everyday Levantine word.

Arabic often uses attached pronouns, and Levantine does this constantly.

In this sentence:

• اختها = her sister
• اعتذرتلها = apologized to her
• معها = with her

So the pronoun -ها can attach to:

• nouns
• prepositions
• combinations involving verbs and prepositions

This is one of the most important patterns to get comfortable with in spoken Arabic.

Yes. A very natural version is:

• سامحت اختها بعد ما اعتذرتلها وحكت معها شوي

This still clearly means She forgave her sister after she apologized to her and talked with her a little.

Adding هي just makes the subject more explicit.

A helpful rough transliteration is:

hiyye saamahet okhta baʿd ma iʿtazarat-la w ḥaket maʿha shway

A few notes:

• هي is often pronounced hiyye
• اختها is often pronounced okhta
• اعتذرتلها may sound fast and connected: iʿtazarat-la
• شوي is often shway or shwayy, depending on region

Exact pronunciation varies across Levantine dialects, but this will get you very close.

Yes, there is a small ambiguity because Arabic keeps using feminine forms without repeating the noun.

Both اعتذرتلها and حكت معها could, in theory, refer to either woman. Context usually solves that.

If you wanted to be clearer, you could repeat أختها:

• هي سامحت اختها بعد ما أختها اعتذرتلها وحكت معها شوي

That sounds more explicit, though a bit heavier. In natural conversation, speakers often leave it as the shorter version and rely on context.