اختي وصديقتها خبوا الهدية بالخزانة، وبعدين طلبوا مني ما افتحها قبل العشا.

Yes — in more careful or formal writing, you would usually see أختي.

In informal Levantine writing, people often drop the hamza in words that are very familiar, so اختي is just a casual spelling of أختي, meaning my sister.

So:

• أختي = more standard/formal spelling
• اختي = very common casual spelling online or in messages

It breaks down like this:

• و = and
• صديقة = female friend
• -ها = her

So وصديقتها means and her friend.

A useful thing to notice: when a feminine noun ending in ـة takes a suffix, that ending shows up as -ت-:

• صديقة
• صديقتها

So the ة is not disappearing randomly — it becomes a t sound before the suffix.

Yes. خبوا means they hid.

It comes from the Levantine verb خبّى = to hide. In casual writing, the shadda is often not written, so you may see:

• خبّوا = more explicit spelling
• خبوا = casual unvowelled spelling

The ending -وا marks they in the past tense.

Because in Levantine Arabic, the regular 3rd person plural form is usually the same for both masculine and feminine groups.

So:

• خبوا = they hid
• طلبوا = they asked

Even though my sister and her friend are both female, Levantine normally uses this same plural form.

This is different from formal Arabic, which has a separate feminine plural form, but in everyday Levantine that distinction is usually gone.

Because that is normal in Levantine.

In this sentence, the subject is اختي وصديقتها = my sister and her friend, which is clearly plural, so the verbs appear in the plural:

• خبوا
• طلبوا

Compared with formal Arabic, Levantine much more freely uses full plural agreement even when the subject comes after the verb. So this word order is completely natural.

بالخزانة means in the closet / in the cabinet / in the wardrobe, depending on context.

It is:

• بـ = in / at / inside
• الخزانة = the closet / cabinet

In Levantine, بـ is very commonly used where English would say in or at. So بالخزانة is a very natural everyday way to say in the closet.

You could also hear في الخزانة, but بـ is extremely common in spoken Arabic.

وبعدين means and then or after that.

It is made of:

• و = and
• بعدين = then / later / afterwards

This is one of the most common spoken connectors in Levantine, especially in storytelling:

• وبعدين... = and then...

Yes, مني literally means from me.

But with طلب in Levantine, a very common pattern is:

• طلب منّي = asked me / requested from me

So طلبوا مني literally looks like they requested from me, but idiomatically it means they asked me.

Also, مني is really:

• من = from
• -ي = me

And in pronunciation it is usually منّي, with a doubled n sound.

Because after a verb like طلبوا مني = they asked me, Levantine usually uses the bare imperfect form, without the everyday present marker بـ.

So:

• بفتحها = I open it / I am opening it in a normal present statement
• افتحها here = open it as the action being talked about after asked me

Then ما makes it negative:

• ما افتحها = not open it

So the whole phrase:

• طلبوا مني ما افتحها = they asked me not to open it

This is very normal colloquial Levantine. In formal Arabic, you would expect something more like أن لا أفتحها or ألّا أفتحها.

افتحها means I open it in this context.

It contains:

• the verb فتح = open
• a 1st person singular form = I open
• -ها = it / her

Here, -ها refers back to الهدية = the gift.

Why -ها? Because هدية is grammatically feminine in Arabic, so the pronoun used for it is the feminine object pronoun -ها.

العشا is the everyday Levantine word for dinner / supper.

The more formal or Standard Arabic version is العشاء.

So:

• العشا = colloquial Levantine
• العشاء = formal / MSA

Also, Arabic often uses الـ with meal names where English would often leave them without the, so قبل العشا naturally means before dinner, not necessarily before the dinner in an English sense.