الزبون اعترض على السحب.

A common Levantine-style pronunciation would be:

iz-zabūn iʿtaraḍ ʿa-s-saḥeb

A few notes:

• الزبون is usually pronounced iz-zabūn, because the ل in ال assimilates before ز.
• اعترض is often pronounced iʿtaraḍ.
• على in everyday Levantine is very often shortened to ʿa.
• السحب may be pronounced closer to is-saḥeb or as-saḥeb, depending on the speaker and region.

So in natural speech, you will often hear something like:

iz-zabūn iʿtaraḍ ʿas-saḥeb

It is understandable in Levantine, but it sounds somewhat formal and close to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).

In everyday Levantine, people often simplify things a bit. For example:

• الزبون اعترض عالسحب
• الزبون اعترض عالسحبة depending on context
• In very casual speech, people might even choose a different verb, depending on what kind of objection is meant.

So the sentence is fine, but it has a slightly formal or written flavor.

Because the verb اعترض normally takes the preposition على when it means to object to.

So the pattern is:

• اعترض على شيء = to object to something

Examples:

• اعترض على القرار = he objected to the decision
• اعترض على السعر = he objected to the price

This is something you usually just learn together with the verb:
اعترض على

Here, اعترض means objected or raised an objection.

It is the past tense, third-person masculine singular:

• هو اعترض = he objected

Since الزبون is grammatically masculine singular here, the verb matches that.

In other contexts, اعترض can also mean something like interrupted, blocked, or intercepted, but with على it very commonly means objected to.

Because both nouns are definite:

• الزبون = the customer
• السحب = the withdrawal / the pulling / the drawing, depending on context

So the sentence is talking about a specific customer and a specific withdrawal/action already known from context.

Without ال, the meaning would be more like:

• زبون = a customer
• سحب = a withdrawal / pulling

Yes, السحب can be vague by itself. Its exact meaning depends on context.

Common possibilities include:

• withdrawal, especially a bank withdrawal
• pulling
• drawing
• in some contexts, even things related to extraction or removal

So if the meaning has already been shown to the learner, that context is important.
In a banking context, السحب most likely means the withdrawal.

In spoken Levantine, people may sometimes prefer a more colloquial wording depending on what exactly is being withdrawn.

Because Arabic can use different word orders, and in Levantine subject + verb is very common.

So:

• الزبون اعترض على السحب = the customer objected to the withdrawal

You could also have a verb-first structure in more formal Arabic:

• اعترض الزبون على السحب

In everyday Levantine, starting with the subject is very natural and common.

Yes. اعترض by itself already means he objected in the past.

Arabic verbs usually pack a lot of information into one word. Here, اعترض tells you:

• the tense: past
• the person: third person
• the gender: masculine
• the number: singular

So you do not need a separate word for did or was.

You would usually say:

الزبونة اعترضت على السحب

Changes:

• الزبون → الزبونة = the female customer
• اعترض → اعترضت = she objected

In Levantine pronunciation, that would often sound like:

iz-zabūne iʿtaraḍet ʿas-saḥeb

Yes, very often.

In everyday Levantine, على is commonly reduced to عَ or written عـ informally.

So:

• على السحب often becomes عالسحب

This is extremely common in speech.

Examples:

• على الطاولة → عالطاولة
• على الباب → عالباب
• على السحب → عالسحب

Because Arabic has sun letters and moon letters.

• ز in الزبون is a sun letter, so the ل of ال is not clearly pronounced:
  • الزبون → iz-zabūn
• س in السحب is also a sun letter, so again the ل assimilates:
  • السحب → is-saḥeb / as-saḥeb

So in both words, the ل is absorbed into the next consonant.

This is why the pronunciation sounds doubled:

• zz
• ss

زبون is widely used and is very common in Levantine for customer or client.

In many everyday situations in the Levant, زبون sounds natural and ordinary.
You may also hear other words in more formal settings, but زبون is a very useful everyday word.

Examples:

• أنا زبون عند هالمحل = I’m a customer at this shop
• الزبون دائماً على حق = the customer is always right

Not always. اعترض is correct and clear, especially in formal or semi-formal language, but in everyday Levantine a speaker might choose another expression depending on the situation.

For example, if someone means:

• complained about,
• didn’t agree with,
• refused,
• or made an issue out of it,

they might choose a different verb or phrase.

So اعترض على is a good pattern to know, but it is not the only possible way to express the idea in spoken Levantine.