رايحين عالمهرجان اليوم.

In Levantine Arabic, the subject pronoun is often omitted when it is clear from context.

Here, رايحين is plural, so listeners already know the speaker is talking about a group. Because of that, نحنا (we) can be left out.

So both of these are natural:

• رايحين عالمهرجان اليوم
• نحنا رايحين عالمهرجان اليوم

The second one is more explicit, but the first one is very common in everyday speech.

Yes. By itself, رايحين only shows plural masculine / mixed-gender plural. It does not show person.

So depending on context, it could mean:

• we are going
• you all are going
• they are going

That is very normal in Levantine. Context tells you which one is meant.

If you want to make it clear, you can add a pronoun:

• نحنا رايحين = we’re going
• إنتو رايحين = you all are going
• هنّي رايحين = they’re going

رايحين is the plural masculine form of رايح, which is an active participle used very often in Levantine.

Forms:

• رايح = singular masculine
• رايحة = singular feminine
• رايحين = plural masculine / mixed group
• رايحات = plural feminine

In Levantine, this participle often works like going, on the way, or about to go, depending on context.

So the sentence is structurally something like:

• [we/you/they] going to the festival today

Arabic often does not need an extra verb like are in the present tense.

These forms are related, but they do not feel exactly the same.

• رايحين often sounds like a current plan, intention, or movement already in progress
• بنروح often means we go or we are going, and can also sound habitual depending on context
• رح نروح is a clearer future form: we will go

Compare:

• رايحين عالمهرجان اليوم = we’re going to the festival today / we’re headed to the festival today
• رح نروح عالمهرجان اليوم = we’ll go to the festival today
• بنروح عالمهرجان كل سنة = we go to the festival every year

So رايحين is very natural when talking about a plan for today.

عال is a very common spoken contraction of:

• عَ or على = to / on
• plus الـ = the

So:

• عَ + الـ = عالـ

That gives:

• عالمهرجان = to the festival

This kind of contraction is extremely common in Levantine:

• عالبيت = to the house / home
• عالجامعة = to the university
• عالمدرسة = to the school

In informal Levantine writing, people often write this contraction as one chunk because that matches how it is pronounced in speech.

So عالمهرجان reflects the spoken form very well.

You may also see spacing vary in informal writing, but the idea is the same:

• عالمهرجان
• عال مهرجان sometimes in less compact writing

In speech, it is basically pronounced as one connected piece.

Because the sentence refers to the festival, not just a festival.

The الـ on المهرجان is the definite article, equivalent to the.

So:

• المهرجان = the festival

If you wanted a festival, you would normally use the noun without الـ:

• عَ مهرجان

That would mean to a festival.

Yes, it can go somewhere else. Levantine word order is flexible.

اليوم at the end is very natural:

• رايحين عالمهرجان اليوم

But these are also possible:

• اليوم رايحين عالمهرجان
• رايحين اليوم عالمهرجان

The difference is mostly about emphasis and flow, not basic meaning.

A rough idea:

• اليوم رايحين عالمهرجان = emphasizes today
• رايحين عالمهرجان اليوم = a neutral, natural statement

Yes. The form of رايح changes with gender and number.

For an all-female group:

• رايحات عالمهرجان اليوم

For one male speaker:

• رايح عالمهرجان اليوم

For one female speaker:

• رايحة عالمهرجان اليوم

For a mixed group, Arabic normally uses the masculine plural:

• رايحين عالمهرجان اليوم

A common Levantine-style pronunciation would be approximately:

rāyḥīn ʿal-mahrajān il-yōm

A few helpful notes:

• رايحين sounds like raa-ye-heen, with a light throaty sound in the middle from ح
• عال sounds like ʿal
• المهرجان is roughly mah-ra-JAAN
• اليوم is roughly il-yoom or el-yoom, depending on region

In fast speech, the whole sentence flows together smoothly.

No, this is colloquial Levantine Arabic.

A more Standard Arabic version would be something like:

• نحن ذاهبون إلى المهرجان اليوم or
• سنذهب إلى المهرجان اليوم

Why it feels colloquial:

• رايحين is the spoken participle form commonly used in Levantine
• عال is a spoken contraction
• the omitted pronoun is very typical of everyday speech

So this sentence sounds natural in conversation, not formal written Arabic.

In a way, yes—but Arabic does not usually say it in the present tense.

English needs:

• we are going

But in Arabic, present-tense sentences often do not use a separate word for am / is / are.

So the structure is more like:

• we going to the festival today

That is completely normal in Arabic grammar.

If you want to talk about the past or future, other words or forms appear, but in the present this zero-copula structure is standard.

A very common Levantine negation would be:

• مش رايحين عالمهرجان اليوم

That means:

• We’re not going to the festival today or, depending on context,
• They’re not going to the festival today

مش is the usual colloquial negation here.

So:

• رايحين عالمهرجان اليوم = going to the festival today
• مش رايحين عالمهرجان اليوم = not going to the festival today