الناس آمنين بالشقة.

Because in Levantine Arabic, the present-tense verb to be is usually omitted.

So الناس آمنين بالشقة is literally something like the people safe in the apartment, but it naturally means the people are safe in the apartment.

If you wanted a past meaning, you would use a form of كان:

• الناس كانوا آمنين بالشقة = The people were safe in the apartment

الناس means the people / people.

It is a very common word for people in general. Even though it can feel a bit like a collective noun in English, in sentences like this it is normally treated as referring to a plural group of humans.

Because it agrees with الناس.

Since الناس refers to multiple people, the adjective also appears in the plural:

• singular: آمن
• plural: آمنين

This is normal agreement in Levantine Arabic with human plurals.

In Arabic, the masculine plural is the default for a mixed group or a group whose gender is not specified.

So with الناس, if you are just talking about people in general, آمنين is the expected form.

The basic singular form is آمن.

You can think of the forms like this:

• آمن = safe, secure
• آمنة = safe (feminine singular)
• آمنين = safe (plural, Levantine everyday form)

In this sentence, آمنين describes the state of the people.

In Levantine Arabic, بـ often means in, at, or inside depending on context, especially with places.

So بالشقة is a very natural way to say in the apartment.

You may also hear في الشقة, but بـ is extremely common in Levantine for location.

It makes the noun definite.

So:

• شقة = an apartment
• الشقة = the apartment
• بالشقة = in the apartment

That means this sentence is talking about a specific apartment, not just any apartment.

It is pronounced roughly like bish-sha22a or besh-sha22a, depending on the speaker and region.

Two things are happening here:

• بـ attaches directly to the noun
• ش is a sun letter, so the ل of ال is not pronounced separately

So بالشقة is not pronounced bil-shaqqa in everyday Levantine pronunciation, but more like bish-sha''a.

Because this is Levantine Arabic, not fully inflected Modern Standard Arabic.

In Levantine, the masculine sound plural usually appears as -ين in everyday speech, regardless of grammatical case:

• آمنين
• مبسوطين
• جاهزين

The form آمنون belongs to formal Standard Arabic grammar.

A very common way is:

الناس مو آمنين بالشقة.

You may also hear:

الناس مش آمنين بالشقة.

Both mean The people are not safe in the apartment.

Yes, Arabic word order is more flexible than English.

الناس آمنين بالشقة is a natural, neutral way to say it. But you could move بالشقة earlier if you wanted to emphasize the location.

Still, for a learner, the given order is a very good basic pattern:

• subject: الناس
• description/state: آمنين
• location: بالشقة