English→Palestinian Levantine Arabic

Translate English to Palestinian Levantine Arabic like a local.

It sounds Palestinian through conversational forms such as كيفك، إشي، وهسّا, while formal documents keep MSA.

474 local dialects

What locals actually say

How are you?

كيفك؟

كيفك is the everyday Palestinian greeting, rather than the formal كيف حالك.

Where did you put that thing?

وين حطّيت هالإشي؟

إشي is the Palestinian colloquial word for “thing,” and هالإشي is the spoken form of “that thing.”

Wait, I’m coming now.

استنّى، جاي هسّا.

هسّا is the everyday Palestinian word for “now,” and جاي is the colloquial present-participle form for “coming.”

Do you have change for a twenty?

معك فَكّة لعشرين؟

فَكّة is the local everyday word for change, signaling casual Palestinian Levantine speech about money.

Do you want hummus or falafel?

بدّك حمّص ولا فلافل؟

بدّك is the Palestinian Levantine second-person singular construction for “do you want,” rather than a formal Arabic form.

My little brother is still asleep.

أخوي الصغير لِسّه نايم.

لِسّه means “still” in Palestinian Levantine and gives the sentence a natural conversational family register.

I’ll send you the file after lunch.

رح أبعتلك الملف بعد الغدا.

رح followed by the imperfect verb marks the colloquial future, while أبعتلك uses the Palestinian Levantine attached pronoun pattern.

It’s really cold this morning.

الدنيا ساقعة كتير اليوم الصبح.

الدنيا ساقعة is a local conversational way to describe the weather, and كتير is the Palestinian Levantine intensifier “really” or “very.”

Notes like these come with every AIRTranslate translation, so you learn why locals phrase it that way as you go.

Palestinian Levantine Arabic for conversational registers (keefak, ishi for thing, ktir); MSA for formal documents.

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