هل يمكنني شحن هاتفي هنا؟

When to use

Ask this in cafes, restaurants, airports, train stations, or at a friend's house when your phone or other device needs charging.

How it works

It begins with 'هل يمكنني' (hal yumkinuni), meaning 'Can I'. 'شحن' (shahn) means 'to charge'. 'هاتفي' (hatifi) is 'my phone'. 'هنا' (huna) means 'here'.

• هل يمكنني: Can I...?
• شحن: to charge
• هاتفي: my phone
• هنا: here

Register

This is Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and is polite and formal enough for most situations. Dialectal variations might be simpler but this is universally understood.

Notes

Useful when traveling all day. Neutral polite wording.