شلت الجاكيت عن الكرسي وحطيته ورا الباب.

شلت means I took / I picked up / I removed.

It comes from the verb شال / يشيل, which is very common in Levantine Arabic and can mean things like:

• to carry
• to lift
• to take away
• to remove

In this sentence, it has the sense of taking the jacket off the chair.

Grammatically, شلت is past tense, first person singular: I took.

In Levantine, عن is often used after verbs like شال to mean off a surface.

So:

• شلت الجاكيت عن الكرسي = I took the jacket off the chair

A learner might expect من because it often means from, and sometimes you can hear من in related contexts, but with شال in everyday Levantine, عن is very natural for the idea of removing something from on top of something else.

So this is less like general from and more like English off.

Yes—it's a very common loanword.

الجاكيت means the jacket, and it comes from English jacket. In Levantine, speakers often use borrowed everyday words like this.

A few useful things to notice:

• الـ is the Arabic definite article, meaning the
• so جاكيت = jacket
• الجاكيت = the jacket

Even though the noun is borrowed, it behaves like an Arabic noun in the sentence.

Because الـ means the.

So:

• جاكيت = a jacket / jacket
• الجاكيت = the jacket

Since the sentence refers to a specific jacket, Levantine uses the definite article just as English uses the.

This is completely normal with borrowed nouns too:

• التلفون = the phone
• الكمبيوتر = the computer
• الجاكيت = the jacket

وحطيته can be broken into three parts:

• و = and
• حطّيت = I put
• ـه = it / him (masculine singular object pronoun)

So:

• وحطيته = and I put it

Here the ـه refers back to الجاكيت.

In Levantine pronunciation, this often sounds something like w ḥaṭṭēto.

Because the verb form already includes the subject I, and the ending includes the object it.

Here’s the structure:

• حطّيت = I put
• حطّيت + ه = I put it

This is very common in Arabic: object pronouns are attached directly to the verb.

Compare:

• شفت = I saw

• شفته = I saw him / it

• أخدت = I took
• أخدته = I took it

So حطيته is a normal example of verb + attached object pronoun.

It refers to الجاكيت.

So the sentence goes like this:

• شلت الجاكيت عن الكرسي = I took the jacket off the chair
• وحطيته ورا الباب = and put it behind the door

The pronoun ـه is masculine singular, which is how جاكيت is being treated here.

In spoken Arabic, many inanimate nouns are referred to with pronouns just like this.

ورا means behind.

So:

• ورا الباب = behind the door

This is a very common everyday Levantine word.

You may also see or hear related forms like:

• وراء in more formal Arabic
• but in Levantine, ورا is the normal spoken form

Examples:

• السيارة ورا البيت = The car is behind the house
• حطيه ورا الكرسي = Put it behind the chair

Because this sentence is in Levantine spoken Arabic, not Modern Standard Arabic.

In MSA, you’re more likely to see:

• وراء الباب

In Levantine speech, this usually becomes:

• ورا الباب

That shorter colloquial form is extremely common and natural in everyday conversation.

Yes, it sounds clearly colloquial Levantine.

A few clues:

• شلت is very natural in spoken dialect
• حطيته is a spoken form
• ورا is colloquial
• the overall structure sounds conversational, not formal

A more Standard Arabic version would look different, for example using more formal vocabulary and forms.

So this is the kind of sentence you’d expect in everyday speech in the Levant.

Because Arabic commonly tells a sequence of actions this way:

• شلت... وحطيته...
• I took... and put it...

This is a very normal storytelling pattern in Levantine:

• رحت عالسوق واشتريت خبز = I went to the market and bought bread

• فتحت الشنطة وطلعت الكتاب = I opened the bag and took out the book

The و here simply links two completed actions in order.

No. You usually do not need to say أنا.

That’s because the verb already tells you the subject:

• شلت = I took
• حطيت = I put

So أنا would only be added for emphasis or contrast.

For example:

• أنا شلت الجاكيت، مو هو = I took the jacket, not him

But in a normal neutral sentence, leaving out أنا is the most natural choice.

A natural Levantine-style pronunciation would be approximately:

shélt il-jākit ʿan il-kúrsi w ḥaṭṭéto wara l-bāb

A few pronunciation notes:

• شلت = shélt
• الجاكيت = il-jākit
• عن = ʿan
• الكرسي = il-kursi
• وحطيته often comes out as w ḥaṭṭéto
• ورا الباب = wara l-bāb

The exact pronunciation can vary by country and city, but this gives a good general Levantine feel.

Yes. شال is a flexible verb.

Depending on context, it can mean:

• carried
• lifted
• took
• removed

So by itself, شلت الجاكيت could mean:

• I picked up the jacket
• I took the jacket
• I removed the jacket

But once you add عن الكرسي, the meaning becomes much clearer:

• I took the jacket off the chair

So the prepositional phrase helps narrow down the meaning.

Yes, depending on tone and style.

حط is the everyday spoken verb meaning put. In English, depending on context, you might translate it as:

• put
• set
• place

But put is usually the most natural and direct translation in a sentence like this:

• وحطيته ورا الباب = and I put it behind the door

So put is the best everyday match.