بطاقة الغرفة ما عادت تشتغل.

A simple Levantine-style pronunciation would be:

biṭāʔet il-ghurfe ma ʿādet tishteghil

A few notes:

• بطاقة is often pronounced biṭāʔa on its own, but here it becomes biṭāʔet because it is followed by another noun.
• الغرفة in Levantine is usually il-ghurfe.
• تشتغل is commonly pronounced something like tishteghil or teshteghil, depending on the speaker.

So the rhythm is roughly:

bi-TAA-et il-GHUR-fe ma AA-det tish-TE-ghil

Because it is in an iḍāfa construction, also called a noun-noun possessive phrase.

On its own:

• بطاقة = card

But when it is followed by another noun:

• بطاقة الغرفة = the room’s card / the room card

In this structure, the ة at the end of بطاقة is pronounced, usually as -et in Levantine:

• alone: biṭāʔa
• before another noun: biṭāʔet

This is very common:

• سيارة → سيارة أخي
• غرفة → غرفة الفندق
• بطاقة → بطاقة الغرفة

It is an iḍāfa phrase: two nouns joined together.

• بطاقة = card
• الغرفة = the room

Together:

• بطاقة الغرفة = the room card

A key thing about Arabic is that in an iḍāfa, the first noun usually does not take الـ. So Arabic says:

• بطاقة الغرفة

not

• البطاقة الغرفة

Also, because the second noun is definite (الغرفة = the room), the whole phrase becomes definite:

• بطاقة الغرفة = the room card
• not a room card

Great question. In the Arabic imperfect, تـ can mark more than one thing.

تشتغل can mean:

• you work / you function
• she works / it works for a feminine noun

Here, the subject is بطاقة, which is a feminine singular noun, so تشتغل means:

• it works

More literally:

• بطاقة ... تشتغل = the card ... works

So the تـ here is not you. It is agreeing with a feminine singular subject.

Here ما عادت means no longer or not anymore.

So:

• ما عادت تشتغل = it no longer works
• it doesn’t work anymore

This is a very common Levantine pattern:

• ما عاد / ما عادت
  • imperfect verb

Examples:

• ما عاد يجي = he doesn’t come anymore
• ما عادوا يحكوا = they don’t talk anymore
• ما عادت تشتغل = it no longer works

Even though عاد originally has the idea of returning, in this pattern it functions like anymore / no longer.

Because the subject is feminine:

• بطاقة is a feminine noun

So the verb agrees with it:

• masculine: ما عاد يشتغل
• feminine: ما عادت تشتغل

That -ت on عادت shows feminine singular agreement.

So the sentence is built around a feminine subject:

• بطاقة الغرفة → feminine singular
• therefore عادت and تشتغل both match that

Yes, عادت is morphologically a past-tense form, but in this expression the meaning is broader than simple past.

ما عاد / ما عادت + imperfect is a common Levantine way to say:

• no longer
• not anymore
• has stopped

So although عادت looks past, the whole phrase describes a current situation after a change:

• it used to work
• now it doesn’t

That is why the natural English meaning is:

• The room card doesn’t work anymore
• The room card has stopped working

In Levantine, اشتغل / يشتغل can be used both for:

1. a person working
2. a machine/device functioning

So تشتغل here means:

• works
• functions
• operates

For devices and systems, this is very natural in Levantine:

• التلفون ما عم يشتغل = the phone isn’t working
• النت ما بيشتغل = the internet isn’t working
• البطاقة ما عادت تشتغل = the card no longer works

So yes, it can refer to people, but it is also very common for things.

Yes, often you can.

For many speakers:

• ما عادت تشتغل
• ما عادت تعمل

both can mean it doesn’t work anymore

But there is a slight tendency for يشتغل to sound especially natural for machines, systems, electronics, or anything that functions.

So for a key card, تشتغل sounds very normal.

If you said:

• بطاقة الغرفة ما عادت تعمل

that would also be understandable and natural.

The difference is the idea of change over time.

• ما بتشتغل = it doesn’t work
• ما عادت تشتغل = it doesn’t work anymore / it no longer works

So:

• ما بتشتغل simply states the problem
• ما عادت تشتغل implies it used to work before, but now it has stopped

That is why ما عادت is especially useful when something has recently gone wrong.

Yes, this sentence is clearly colloquial Levantine.

A Modern Standard Arabic version would be something like:

• بطاقة الغرفة لم تعد تعمل

That means the same thing: The room card no longer works.

Main differences:

• Levantine: ما عادت تشتغل
• MSA: لم تعد تعمل

Both are correct in their own context, but the sentence you were given is the everyday spoken Levantine version.

Many speakers would understand بطاقة perfectly, and it is a good word.

But in everyday Levantine, many people would very often say كرت for card:

• كرت الغرفة ما عاد يشتغل
• كرت الغرفة ما عادت تشتغل

So:

• بطاقة can sound a bit more formal or neutral
• كرت often sounds more everyday and conversational

Both are useful to know.

Yes, in real spoken Levantine you may hear both patterns.

You may hear:

• بطاقة الغرفة ما عادت تشتغل
• بطاقة الغرفة ما عاد تشتغل

The version with عادت clearly agrees with the feminine noun بطاقة.
The version with ما عاد is also common in everyday speech, where ما عاد can behave almost like a fixed expression meaning no longer.

So the sentence you have is grammatically transparent and very useful for learning, but don’t be surprised if native speakers sometimes say ما عاد even with feminine nouns.