ما رح نقدم عليها الا اذا في وظيفة شاغرة.

ما رح is a very common Levantine way to say won’t or are not going to.

• رح marks the future: will / going to
• ما negates it

So:

• رح نقدم = we will apply
• ما رح نقدم = we won’t apply

You may also hear مش رح in some varieties.

The verb is from قدّم, which in this context means to apply or to submit an application.

The prefix نـ on the verb shows we in Levantine:

• نقدم = we apply / we submit

In everyday Arabic writing, short vowels and the shadda are usually not written, so نقدم here is understood as نقدّم (nqaddem / n’addem), not some other pronunciation.

Because in Levantine, قدّم على is the normal expression for to apply for something.

So you should learn it as a chunk:

• قدّم على وظيفة = to apply for a job
• قدّم على جامعة = to apply to a university

Even though على literally often means on, here it is just the preposition that goes with this verb.

عليها is على + ها.

• على = the preposition
• ها = her/it for a feminine noun

So عليها means for it / to it / on it, referring to some feminine thing already understood from context.

The exact thing depends on the conversation. It could be a job, position, company, university, program, etc., as long as the Arabic noun is feminine.

إلا إذا means unless, literally something like except if.

So:

• ما رح نقدم عليها إلا إذا... = We won’t apply for it unless...

This is a very useful pattern in Arabic:

• ما بعمل هيك إلا إذا لازم = I don’t do that unless it’s necessary

Yes, في can mean in, but in Levantine it is also very commonly used to mean there is / there are.

So here:

• في وظيفة شاغرة = there is an open position / there is a vacancy

This existential use of في is extremely common in spoken Levantine.

Because Arabic often does not use a verb equivalent to is/are in the present tense the way English does.

So:

• إذا في وظيفة شاغرة literally: if there an open job naturally: if there is an open position

This is completely normal in Arabic, especially in spoken dialects.

• وظيفة = job / position
• شاغرة = vacant / open / available

وظيفة is a feminine noun, so the adjective must also be feminine.

That is why you get:

• وظيفة شاغرة = an open position
• not وظيفة شاغر

This kind of noun-adjective agreement is very important in Arabic.

Because it means an open position, not the open position.

• في وظيفة شاغرة = there is an open position / a vacancy
• في الوظيفة الشاغرة would mean something more specific, like the vacant position

Since the sentence is talking about whether any vacancy exists, the indefinite form is the natural one.

Because the verb form itself tells you.

In نقدم, the نـ at the beginning marks we in this kind of verb form. Arabic often does not need separate subject pronouns, because the verb already contains that information.

So:

• أقدم = I apply
• نقدم = we apply

That is why there is no separate word for we in the sentence.

Yes, it sounds clearly colloquial and Levantine.

Some clues are:

• رح for the future
• في meaning there is
• the overall spoken-style structure

A more formal MSA version would be quite different, for example:

• لن نتقدّم إليها إلا إذا كانت هناك وظيفة شاغرة

So the sentence you have is natural spoken Levantine, not formal written Arabic.

A broad pronunciation would be:

ma raḥ nqaddem ʿalēha illa iza fī waẓīfe shāghra

A few notes:

• رح is often pronounced raḥ
• عليها is often heard as ʿalēha
• وظيفة in speech may sound closer to waẓīfe
• depending on the region, the sound of ق in نقدّم may vary or weaken in pronunciation

So in fast natural speech, the whole sentence may sound quite smooth and connected.