صارلي اسبوع ما حضرت محاضرة، ومشان هيك صار عندي غياب كتير.

صارلي literally comes from صار لي = it became for me, but in Levantine it very commonly means it has been or it’s been for a certain amount of time.

So:

• صارلي اسبوع = It’s been a week
• more literally: A week has passed for me

This is a very common way to talk about duration in spoken Levantine.

Examples:

• صارلي شهر هون = I’ve been here for a month
• صارلي سنتين بشتغل هون = I’ve been working here for two years

In informal Levantine writing, people often leave out some spelling details that would appear in Standard Arabic.

So:

• أسبوع = the more formal / standard spelling
• اسبوع = a very common casual spelling in dialect writing

They mean the same thing: week.

This happens a lot in chat-style or informal writing.

This pattern is very common in Levantine:

• صارلي + time period + ما + past verb

It expresses that something has not happened for that amount of time.

So:

• صارلي اسبوع ما حضرت محاضرة = It’s been a week since I attended a lecture = I haven’t attended a lecture for a week

More examples:

• صارلي يومين ما شفته = I haven’t seen him for two days
• صارلي شهر ما حكيت معها = I haven’t spoken with her for a month

Even though the verb is in the past, the whole expression refers to a period continuing up to now.

In Levantine, ما is a very common way to negate a past verb.

So:

• حضرت = I attended
• ما حضرت = I didn’t attend / I haven’t attended

In this sentence, ما حضرت works naturally after صارلي اسبوع to mean I haven’t attended for a week.

Different Arabic dialects negate differently. For example, Egyptian often uses ما...ش, but in Levantine ما by itself is very normal.

Here حضرت means I attended.

The verb is حضر and in contexts like school or university it often means:

• to attend
• to be present at

So:

• حضرت محاضرة = I attended a lecture

Be careful not to translate it too literally as I came a lecture. In English we say attend a lecture, and Arabic uses حضر for that idea.

محاضرة specifically means lecture, especially in a university setting.

So the sentence sounds like someone talking about university attendance.

Related words:

• محاضرة = lecture
• درس = lesson
• حصة = class period, especially in school
• صف = classroom / class

So if the speaker is talking about college or university, محاضرة is very natural.

Because حضرت is a past tense form.

In Levantine:

• past: حضرت = I attended
• present/habitual: بحضر = I attend / I’m attending

So:

• ما حضرت = I didn’t attend / I haven’t attended
• ما بحضر = I don’t attend / I’m not attending

The بـ prefix is typically used with the present in Levantine, not the past.

مشان هيك means because of that, for that reason, or that’s why.

Breakdown:

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

Together:

• ومشان هيك = and because of that / and that’s why

It’s extremely common in spoken Levantine.

Similar expressions:

• لهيك = that’s why
• عشان هيك = also common in some areas

Literally, it is something like:

• صار عندي = it became at me / I ended up having
• غياب = absence / absenteeism / missed attendance
• كتير = a lot

So the natural meaning is:

• I ended up with a lot of absences
• I’ve accumulated a lot of absences
• I now have a lot of attendance penalties / missed classes

This is a very Arabic way of expressing possession or resulting state.

In Arabic dialects, possession is often expressed with something like at me rather than a verb exactly like English have.

So:

• عندي كتاب = I have a book
• literally: At me is a book

In your sentence:

• صار عندي غياب كتير = I came to have a lot of absences

The phrase صار عندي often means I ended up having or I developed / accumulated something.

غياب literally means absence, but in school or university contexts it often refers to absences in a collective sense.

So عندي غياب كتير means:

• I have a lot of absences
• I’ve missed a lot of classes

Even though English often uses a plural count noun here, Arabic commonly uses غياب as a kind of collective or mass noun.

You may also hear:

• غيابات = absences

But غياب كتير is very natural in colloquial speech.

Because in Levantine, كتير can work like a lot or many, and it often comes after the noun.

So:

• غياب كتير = a lot of absence / many absences
• مشاكل كتير = many problems
• ناس كتير = many people

This post-noun position is very common in spoken Arabic.

Yes, you could, and it would also make sense.

Compare:

• غياب كتير = a lot of absence / many absences
  
  • more collective, very natural in speech
• غيابات كتيرة = many absences
  
  • more clearly plural and countable

Both are understandable. In everyday Levantine, غياب كتير sounds very normal.

The و simply means and.

So:

• ومشان هيك = and because of that / and that’s why

Arabic often links clauses with و in places where English might just start a new sentence or use so.

So the structure is:

• I haven’t attended a lecture for a week, and because of that, I now have a lot of absences.

A rough pronunciation would be:

ṣār-li usbūʿ ma ḥaḍaret muḥāḍara, w-mashān hēk ṣār ʿandī ghiyāb ktīr

A more English-friendly approximation:

saar-li us-boo ma ha-dart m-haa-da-ra, w ma-shaan heek saar an-dee ghi-yaab k-teer

A few notes:

• صارلي sounds like saarli
• مشان sounds like mashaan
• هيك sounds like heek
• كتير sounds like kteer

Exact pronunciation varies by country and city.

It is definitely Levantine-style, especially because of expressions like:

• صارلي
• مشان هيك
• هيك
• كتير

Speakers from other Arabic-speaking regions would probably understand it, but they might say it differently in their own dialect.

For example, the general idea is widely understandable, but the exact phrasing is very characteristic of the Levant.

Yes. A few things are strongly colloquial:

• صارلي + time period for it’s been...
• مشان هيك for that’s why
• lack of case endings
• informal spelling like اسبوع
• natural spoken word order like غياب كتير

So this is the kind of sentence you would really hear in conversation, not a formal textbook-style Standard Arabic sentence.