هاي القصة حقيقية.

هاي means this for a feminine singular noun in Levantine Arabic.

Since القصة (the story) is feminine, you use هاي.

A very basic pattern is:

• هاد = this (masculine)
• هاي = this (feminine)

So:

• هاد الكتاب = this book
• هاي القصة = this story

In Modern Standard Arabic, you would usually see هذه instead of هاي.

In Arabic, nouns have grammatical gender, and قصة (story) is feminine.

A big clue is the ending ـة (called taa marbuuTa), which very often marks feminine nouns:

• قصة = story
• سيارة = car
• مدرسة = school

Because القصة is feminine, words that describe it or point to it also have to be feminine, which is why the sentence uses:

• هاي not هاد
• حقيقية not حقيقي

In Arabic, the verb to be is usually not said in the present tense.

So a sentence like:

• هاي القصة حقيقية

literally looks like:

• this the-story real

but it means:

• This story is real / true

This is completely normal in Arabic. The present-tense is/are/am is just understood.

If you wanted past tense, then a form of كان could appear:

• هاي القصة كانت حقيقية = This story was real

In Arabic, after a demonstrative like this, the noun is usually definite, so it often takes الـ.

So Arabic naturally says:

• هاي القصة = literally this the-story

That is the normal structure.

This happens a lot:

• هاد البيت = this house
• هاي البنت = this girl
• هاد الفيلم = this movie

So even though English does not use the here, Arabic usually does.

Because adjectives in Arabic usually agree with the noun they describe in:

• gender
• number
• definiteness

Here, القصة is feminine singular, so the adjective is also feminine singular:

• masculine: حقيقي
• feminine: حقيقية

Compare:

• هاد الخبر حقيقي = This news/item is real
• هاي القصة حقيقية = This story is real

This sentence is a very common kind of Arabic sentence called a nominal sentence:

• هاي القصة = the subject
• حقيقية = the predicate/description

In this structure, the describing word after the subject often does not take الـ.

So:

• هاي القصة حقيقية = This story is real

But if the adjective were directly attached inside a noun phrase, then it would match definiteness:

• القصة الحقيقية = the real story

That is an important difference:

• القصة حقيقية = The story is real
• القصة الحقيقية = the real story

It can suggest either real or true, depending on context.

For قصة (story), English might translate it as:

• This story is true
• This story is real

Often the intended idea is that the story is not invented or actually happened.

So both translations can work, and context decides which sounds better in English.

Yes. In Levantine, هالقصة is very common and means roughly this story too.

So both are possible:

• هاي القصة حقيقية
• هالقصة حقيقية

Very roughly:

• هاي القصة feels like this story
• هالقصة is also this story, often a very natural everyday form

Learners should be aware that spoken Levantine has a lot of variation by region and speaker.

It is Levantine Arabic.

A Modern Standard Arabic version would be:

• هذه القصة حقيقية

The Levantine clues are especially:

• هاي instead of هذه
• the overall colloquial feel of the sentence

So if you are studying Levantine, هاي القصة حقيقية is a very useful everyday pattern.

A broad Levantine-style pronunciation could be something like:

• haay il-’iSSa 7a’ii’iyye

A few notes:

• هاي sounds like haay
• الـ often sounds like il- or el-
• ق in many urban Levantine accents is pronounced as a glottal stop (’), though not everywhere
• ص is a strong/emphatic s
• ح is the deep throaty ḥ sound, often written as 7 in chat-style transliteration

Because Levantine pronunciation varies a lot, you may also hear different versions depending on country or city.

That depends on the Levantine dialect.

Common possibilities include:

• glottal stop (’) in many urban accents, especially in cities like Damascus, Beirut, and Jerusalem
• q in more formal speech or in some regional/social varieties
• sometimes other regional realizations

So القصة may sound like:

• il-’issa or
• il-qiSSa

And حقيقية may sound like:

• ḥa’ī’iyye or
• ḥaqīqiyye

For a beginner in Levantine, recognizing the glottal-stop version is very useful.

Yes, sometimes, but هاي القصة حقيقية is the straightforward neutral version.

You may also hear things like:

• القصة هاي حقيقية

This can sound more like this story, it’s real or put a little more focus on this story.

As a learner, the safest basic pattern is:

• demonstrative + noun + adjective/predicate

So stick with:

• هاي القصة حقيقية

until you get more comfortable with natural spoken variation.

This is a very important distinction.

• القصة حقيقية = The story is real / true
• القصة الحقيقية = the real story

In the first one, حقيقية is the predicate of the sentence. In the second one, الحقيقية is an adjective directly modifying القصة inside one noun phrase.

So:

• هاي القصة حقيقية = This story is true
• هاي القصة الحقيقية = This is the real story

Sometimes, but the meaning shifts a little.

• حقيقية usually means real / genuine / actually true
• صحيحة means correct / true
• صح in colloquial often means right / correct / true

For a story, حقيقية is especially natural when you mean the story is based on reality or actually happened.

So:

• هاي القصة حقيقية = This story is real/true

If you used صح or صحيحة, it might sound more like you are saying the information is accurate, not necessarily that the story really happened.