الحيوان الشارد برا.

A natural Levantine pronunciation is:

il-ḥayawān ish-shāred barra

A few notes:

• ḥ in ḥayawān is a deeper, throatier h than English h
• sh sounds like sh in shoe
• barra usually has a doubled r sound
• Levantine Arabic does not use the full case endings you may know from Modern Standard Arabic

So you would not pronounce it like fully inflected formal Arabic.

Because ش is a sun letter.

In Arabic, the definite article الـ changes pronunciation before certain consonants. In Levantine:

• الحيوان → il-ḥayawān
  Here, ح is not a sun letter, so the l sound stays.
• الشارد → ish-shāred
  Here, ش is a sun letter, so the l sound assimilates to the next consonant.

That is why you hear ish-shāred, not il-shāred.

In Arabic, adjectives normally come after the noun they describe.

So the pattern is:

noun + adjective

Examples:

• الحيوان الشارد
• البيت الكبير
• البنت الصغيرة

This is different from English, where adjectives usually come before the noun.

Because Arabic adjectives agree with the nouns they describe in definiteness.

If the noun is definite, the adjective must also be definite.

So:

• حيوان شارد = a stray animal
• الحيوان الشارد = the stray animal

This matching is very important in Arabic grammar.

In Arabic, the verb to be is usually left out in the present tense.

So a sentence like:

• الحيوان الشارد برا

naturally means:

• The stray animal is outside

There is no separate word for is here. This is normal in both Levantine and Standard Arabic.

شارد can have a few related meanings depending on context.

With people, it can mean things like:

• absent-minded
• distracted
• mentally elsewhere

With an animal, it usually means something like:

• stray
• wandering
• loose
• escaped

So with الحيوان, it refers to an animal that is not where it is supposed to be.

برا means outside or outdoors in Levantine Arabic.

It is a very common colloquial word. In more formal or Standard Arabic, you would more often see:

• خارج
• في الخارج

So برا is a clearly spoken/dialectal choice, which fits the sentence being in Levantine.

Because Arabic often places words of location after the noun phrase they relate to.

So this structure is very natural:

the animal + description + location

In this sentence:

• الحيوان الشارد = the noun phrase
• برا = the location

Putting برا at the end sounds normal and straightforward in Levantine.

In this sentence, الشارد is most naturally understood as an adjective describing الحيوان, because both are definite:

• الحيوان الشارد = the stray animal

Then برا gives the location.

So the sentence is structured most naturally as:

• [the stray animal] [outside]

If you wanted شارد to function more like a separate predicate, the wording would usually be different.

Because the word is often pronounced with a doubled r: barra.

In Arabic spelling, that doubling is ideally shown with a shadda:

• برّا

But in informal writing, people often leave the shadda out:

• برا

Both are common in everyday writing, especially in chats and messages.