الشاشة الكبيرة بالمكتب منيحة، بس السماعات القديمة صوتها واطي.

In Levantine Arabic, the present-tense verb to be is usually left out.

So:

• الشاشة الكبيرة بالمكتب منيحة literally looks like the big screen in the office good
• صوتها واطي literally looks like its/their sound low

But both are understood as full sentences:

• The big screen in the office is good
• Its/their sound is low/quiet

Arabic normally only needs a separate to be verb in other tenses, like past or future.

Because in Arabic, an adjective that directly describes a noun must match it in definiteness.

So:

• الشاشة الكبيرة = the big screen
• not just screen big

This is important, because:

• الشاشة الكبيرة = the big screen
• الشاشة كبيرة = the screen is big

So adding الـ to both the noun and the adjective shows that they belong together as one noun phrase.

That is the normal word order in Arabic.

So instead of:

• big screen
• old headphones/speakers

Arabic says:

• screen big = الشاشة الكبيرة
• headphones/speakers old = السماعات القديمة

This is one of the most basic word-order differences between English and Arabic.

بالمكتب is made of:

• بـ = in / at
• المكتب = the office

So بالمكتب means in the office or at the office.

In Arabic, short prepositions like بـ often attach directly to the following word.

Because الشاشة is a feminine singular noun, and the adjective agrees with it.

So:

• منيح = masculine singular
• منيحة = feminine singular

Since screen here is الشاشة and that noun is feminine, the sentence uses منيحة.

This is very common in Levantine:

• الكتاب منيح = the book is good
• السيارة منيحة = the car is good

منيحة is a very common Levantine spoken word meaning good, nice, or fine, depending on context.

It is not formal Modern Standard Arabic. It is everyday dialect.

So in this sentence, منيحة sounds natural and conversational. A formal Arabic sentence would usually use different vocabulary.

Yes. بس can mean:

• but
• only / just

Here it means but, because it connects two contrasting ideas:

• the screen is good
• the headphones/speakers are old and their sound is low

So the meaning is clearly but in this sentence.

Yes, القديمة is the feminine singular form, and that is normal here.

سماعات is a non-human plural noun. In Arabic, non-human plurals are very often treated grammatically like feminine singular for agreement.

So you get:

• السماعات القديمة
• literally plural in meaning, but feminine singular in grammar

This is a very important Arabic pattern. It happens a lot with objects and things.

For the same reason as above.

Even though السماعات is plural in meaning, it is a non-human plural, so Arabic often refers back to it with the feminine singular pronoun ها.

So:

• صوتها literally = its sound
• but in English we would often translate it as their sound

This is normal Arabic grammar, even if it feels strange from an English point of view.

Because واطي describes صوت, not السماعات.

In صوتها واطي:

• صوت = sound
• واطي = low / quiet

And صوت is masculine singular, so the adjective is masculine singular too:

• واطي = masculine
• واطية = feminine

So the agreement is with sound, not with headphones/speakers.

Here واطي means low in the sense of low sound or quiet.

So صوتها واطي means something like:

• their sound is low
• their volume is low
• they sound quiet

The core idea is that the sound level is not strong.

Because Arabic often talks about sound devices by describing their sound.

So:

• صوتها واطي = their sound is low/quiet

This is more precise than just attaching واطي directly to السماعات, because واطي can describe many kinds of lowness. By saying صوتها, the sentence makes it clear that the problem is the sound level, not the physical height or something else.

Yes. سماعات is a broad everyday word and can refer to different audio devices depending on context, such as:

• headphones
• earphones
• a headset
• sometimes speakers

So the exact English translation depends on the situation. The Arabic word itself is flexible.

It is spoken Levantine Arabic.

Words like:

• منيحة
• بس
• واطي

are very natural in everyday speech.

A formal Modern Standard Arabic version would usually use different vocabulary and a less conversational style. This sentence sounds like something a person would actually say in daily life.