ما قدرت اكتب بايدي اليمين، فكتبت شوي بايدي الشمال.

Because the verbs already show the subject.

In Levantine Arabic, قدرت and كتبت both already mean I was able and I wrote. So the I is built into the verb form. You can add أنا for emphasis, but in normal speech it is usually left out.

So:

• قدرت = I was able
• كتبت = I wrote

That makes أنا optional, not required.

This is a very common Levantine pattern:

ما + past verb

So:

• قدرت = I was able
• ما قدرت = I wasn’t able / I couldn’t

The verb قدر is used a lot for can / be able to. In the past, ما قدرت is the natural colloquial way to say I couldn’t.

Because Levantine Arabic does not use an English-style infinitive.

After verbs like قدر (be able to), the next verb usually comes directly in the imperfect form:

• قدرت اكتب = I managed to write / I was able to write
• ما قدرت اكتب = I couldn’t write

In more formal Arabic, learners may see أن أكتب, but in everyday Levantine that أن is usually not used here.

No. In the first person singular past, both men and women use the same form.

So a male speaker and a female speaker both say:

• قدرت = I was able
• كتبت = I wrote

The -ت here marks I, not feminine gender.

In informal Levantine writing, hamzas are often left out.

So:

• اكتب
• أكتب

can both represent the same word in casual writing. The formal spelling would more often include the hamza, but dialect writing is much looser and less standardized.

بايدي means with my hand or more literally by my hand.

It is made from:

• بـ = with / by
• إيدي = my hand

In Levantine, hand is often إيد rather than the Standard Arabic يد. So:

• إيدي = my hand
• بايدي = with my hand

This بـ is very common for showing the instrument used to do something, like with a pen, with my hand, and so on.

Because Levantine usually says this as my hand, the right one and my hand, the left one.

So:

• إيدي اليمين = my right hand
• إيدي الشمال = my left hand

This is very natural colloquial phrasing. English uses right hand as a fixed adjective+noun phrase, but Arabic often builds it as a noun plus a descriptive word.

Because the whole phrase is definite, and the describing word is also definite.

Since إيدي means my hand, it is already definite. The adjective or descriptive word that follows also appears as definite:

• إيدي اليمين
• إيدي الشمال

This is normal. A possessed noun like my hand is definite, so the word describing it is also definite.

Yes. اليمين and الشمال are very common colloquial words for the right side and the left side.

So:

• إيدي اليمين = my right hand
• إيدي الشمال = my left hand

You may also hear more formal vocabulary like اليسار for the left, but الشمال is extremely common in Levantine everyday speech.

شوي is a very common Levantine word meaning a little, a bit, or sometimes for a little while.

In this sentence, it most naturally means something like:

• a little
• a bit

So the idea is that the speaker wrote a little using the left hand.

You will hear شوي all the time in Levantine, and its exact English translation depends on context.

فـ means something like so, then, or as a result.

It connects the two parts of the sentence:

• I couldn’t write with my right hand
• so I wrote a little with my left hand

It shows consequence more clearly than just and would.

Also, in Arabic spelling, فـ attaches directly to the next word, so فكتبت is normal spelling.

A rough pronunciation would be:

ma 2dert aktob b-īdi l-yamīn, fa-katabt shwayy b-īdi sh-shmāl

A few useful notes:

• قدرت may sound like 2dert in many urban Levantine accents, where ق becomes a glottal stop.
• اكتب is often pronounced aktob in Levantine.
• الشمال is pronounced with an assimilated sh sound at the start, roughly ish-shmāl or sh-shmāl depending on how carefully someone speaks.

Exact pronunciation varies by country, city, and speaker, but that gives you a good Levantine-style reading.