صوتك واطي، ومشان هيك ما فهمت السؤال.

It is colloquial Levantine Arabic, not formal Modern Standard Arabic.

Clues:

• واطي is a colloquial word
• مشان هيك is a very common Levantine expression
• the sentence structure is natural for everyday speech

A more formal version would be something like صوتك منخفض، ولذلك لم أفهم السؤال.

Because Arabic often uses a nominal sentence in the present tense.

So صوتك واطي literally looks like:

• صوتك = your voice
• واطي = low / quiet

That gives Your voice is low/quiet without needing a separate word for is.

This is very normal in both spoken Arabic and Standard Arabic.

صوتك is made of:

• صوت = voice / sound
• -ك = your

So it literally means your voice or your sound.

The ending -ك changes in pronunciation depending on who you are talking to:

• to a man: often -ak
• to a woman: often -ik or -ek, depending on dialect

The spelling usually stays the same: ك.

Here واطي means low, and with voice it means quiet, too low, or too soft.

So صوتك واطي means something like:

• Your voice is low
• You’re speaking too quietly
• Your voice is too soft

In other contexts, واطي can have other meanings, so the exact sense depends on what it describes.

مشان هيك is a very common Levantine expression meaning:

• because of that
• for that reason
• so
• that’s why

Breakdown:

• مشان = for / because of / for the sake of
• هيك = like this / like that / this way / that way

But together, مشان هيك works as one fixed phrase meaning so / that’s why.

The و literally means and, but in spoken Arabic it often works as a very loose connector.

Here it can sound like:

• and so
• and because of that
• so

So ومشان هيك is very natural in conversation. It helps the sentence flow, even if English would not always translate it with a separate and.

In Levantine Arabic, ما is commonly used to negate the past tense.

So:

• فهمت = I understood / you understood
• ما فهمت = I didn’t understand / you didn’t understand

In this sentence, it means I didn’t understand.

This is a very common spoken pattern:

• ما عرفت = I didn’t know
• ما سمعت = I didn’t hear
• ما شفت = I didn’t see

Because فهمت can be ambiguous in writing and sometimes even in speech. In Levantine, it can mean:

• I understood
• you understood to a man

The context tells you which one is meant.

In صوتك واطي، ومشان هيك ما فهمت السؤال the meaning is clearly:

• Your voice is low, so I didn’t understand the question

If it meant you to a woman, it would usually be فهمتي.

السؤال means the question, referring to a specific question that was just asked.

So the speaker is not talking about any question in general, but about the particular question they failed to understand.

If you said سؤال without الـ, that would mean a question.

Yes, but the meaning changes a little.

• ما سمعت السؤال = I didn’t hear the question
• ما فهمت السؤال = I didn’t understand the question

If someone was speaking too quietly, both can make sense:

• use سمعت if the problem was hearing the sounds
• use فهمت if the problem was understanding what was said

Sometimes in real conversation, speakers may choose either one depending on what they want to emphasize.

Usually no. Because س is a sun letter, the ل of الـ assimilates.

So السؤال is pronounced more like:

• is-su’āl
• or es-su’āl, depending on dialect

Not al-su’āl.

This is a very common pronunciation rule in Arabic.

A rough pronunciation would be:

Ṣōtak wāṭi, w-mshān hēk ma fhemet is-su’āl.

A few notes:

• صوتك often sounds like ṣōtak or ṣōtek/ṣōtik
• واطي sounds like wāṭi
• مشان sounds like mshān
• هيك sounds like hēk
• السؤال sounds like is-su’āl

Exact pronunciation varies by country and city, but this is a good Levantine-style approximation.