هاد الشخص مشجع.

A common Levantine pronunciation is:

haad ish-shakhs mšajjaʿ

A few notes:

• هاد = haad
• الشخص is often pronounced ish-shakhs, not al-shakhs, because ش is a sun letter, so the l sound assimilates
• مشجع is roughly mšajjaʿ
• The final ʿ represents ع, a sound that does not exist in English

Pronunciation varies a bit by region, but this is a good practical version to learn.

هاد means this in Levantine Arabic.

So:

• هاد الشخص = this person

It is the colloquial Levantine equivalent of MSA هذا الشخص.

In different parts of the Levant, you may also hear related forms like هيدا or هالـ in similar contexts.

Because in Arabic, present-tense sentences like this usually do not use a spoken word for is.

So:

• هاد الشخص مشجع literally looks like this person encouraging/supportive
• but it naturally means This person is encouraging / supportive

This kind of sentence is called a nominal sentence. In everyday Arabic, the present-tense is/are is normally just understood.

الشخص means the person.

With demonstratives like this, Arabic very often uses a definite noun, so هاد الشخص is a normal structure for this person.

So the pattern is:

• هاد + definite noun
• this + the-noun

That may feel unusual to an English speaker, but it is normal in Arabic.

Because ش is a sun letter.

When الـ comes before a sun letter, the l sound is not pronounced separately. Instead, the next consonant is doubled.

So:

• written: الشخص
• pronounced: ish-shakhs

This is a very common Arabic pronunciation rule, and you will see it in both Standard Arabic and dialects.

Here مشجع means something like:

• encouraging
• supportive
• motivating

It comes from the verb شجّع, which means to encourage.

So مشجع is basically encouraging or one who encourages, depending on context.

In this sentence, it works like a descriptive word about the person.

Yes. مشجع can also mean fan or supporter, especially in sports contexts.

For example:

• مشجع للفريق = a fan of the team

So the exact meaning depends on context.

In هاد الشخص مشجع, if the intended meaning shown to the learner is This person is encouraging/supportive, that is the meaning to focus on here. But it is good to know the word can also mean fan/supporter in other situations.

It can behave like both.

In this sentence, it is functioning like a predicate adjective in English:

• هاد الشخص مشجع = This person is encouraging

But historically and structurally, it is related to an active participle, which often behaves somewhere between a noun and an adjective in Arabic.

That is very common in Arabic: one form can describe a person while also feeling noun-like.

هاد الشخص is understandable and natural.

You may also hear:

• هالشخص

This is another common way to say this person in Levantine.

So both are useful to recognize:

• هاد الشخص
• هالشخص

The exact preference depends on region and speaker.

If you change the noun to a clearly feminine noun, the demonstrative and adjective usually change too.

For example:

• هاي البنت مشجعة = This girl is encouraging/supportive

Here:

• هاي = feminine this
• مشجعة = feminine form of مشجع

One small note: شخص itself is usually treated as a masculine noun grammatically, even if it refers to a female person. So if you keep the word الشخص, you may still hear masculine agreement.

A Standard Arabic version would be:

هذا الشخص مشجّع

So the main difference here is:

• Levantine: هاد
• Standard Arabic: هذا

The rest of the sentence is very similar, though pronunciation and style differ between dialect and Standard Arabic.