Questions & Answers about البطولة بلشت اليوم.
بلشت is the Levantine past-tense form of the verb بلّش / يبلّش, which means to start / to begin.
In this sentence, it means started.
A useful comparison:
- Levantine: بلشت
- Formal / MSA equivalent: بدأت
So this is a very everyday, spoken-Levantine way to say that something began.
Because البطولة is a feminine singular noun, and the verb agrees with it.
Since بطولة ends in ـة, it is grammatically feminine. So the verb takes the feminine past form:
- بلش = he started
- بلشت = she/it started
Here, البطولة is the subject, so بلشت means it started referring to the championship/tournament.
Yes. In Levantine, بلشت can mean either:
- I started
- she started
- it started (for a feminine noun)
The context tells you which one is meant.
In this sentence, because you already have البطولة as the subject, the meaning is clearly the championship started.
So if you saw بلشت اليوم by itself, it could be ambiguous. But البطولة بلشت اليوم is not.