الرسام صمم الاطار.

In Arabic, the definite article the is a prefix, so it attaches directly to the noun.

• الرسام = the painter
• الإطار = the frame

So Arabic does not write a separate word for the the way English does.

Because ر is a sun letter. With sun letters, the ل of ال is not pronounced; it assimilates to the next consonant.

So:

• written: الرسام
• pronounced more like: ar-rassām in careful Standard-style reading
• often ir-rassām in Levantine-style pronunciation

In fully marked writing, you may see الرسّام, with a shadda showing the doubled r sound.

صمم is the past tense (also called the perfect) and here it means he designed.

More specifically, it is:

• 3rd person
• masculine
• singular

So it matches a subject like الرسام.

Arabic normally leaves out most short vowels in everyday writing, so learners have to infer them from context and patterns.

Here, صمم is read ṣammam. In fully vocalized Arabic, it would be:

• صمَّمَ

So ordinary Arabic writing often gives you the consonant skeleton, and you supply the vowels from your knowledge of the word.

The root letters are ص-م-م. This verb is commonly analyzed as Form II, which often has a doubled middle consonant.

That is why the fully marked form is:

• صمَّمَ

It is related to the noun:

• تصميم = design

So once you know تصميم, it becomes easier to recognize صمّم as designed.

In normal Arabic writing, case endings are usually not written. And in Levantine, they are not used in everyday speech anyway.

A fully vocalized MSA version would be:

• الرسّامُ صمَّمَ الإطارَ

But in ordinary writing, you will usually just see:

• الرسام صمم الإطار

So for a Levantine learner, the version without case endings is completely normal.

Yes, this word order is normal.

This sentence is:

• Subject + Verb + Object

That order is very common in Levantine and sounds natural in everyday speech.

You could also say:

• صمم الرسام الإطار

That is also grammatical, but it sounds more formal or more like Standard Arabic word order.

The more careful standard spelling is:

• الإطار

with a hamza under the alif.

In casual typing, many people leave hamza out and write:

• الاطار

So a learner should recognize both, but it is best to learn the formal spelling الإطار.

Yes. Here, الرسام is masculine singular, so the verb is also masculine singular: صمم.

For example:

• الرسامة صممت الإطار = feminine singular
• الرسامون صمموا الإطار = masculine plural in Standard Arabic

In Levantine, agreement is also important, though exact spoken forms can vary a bit by dialect.

Both ص and ط are emphatic consonants.

• ص is like a darker, heavier s
• ط is like a darker, heavier t

They are not exactly like ordinary English s and t. When saying them, Arabic speakers usually keep the tongue and mouth shape tenser and farther back, which gives the sound a heavier quality.

So in this sentence:

• صمم starts with an emphatic ṣ
• الإطار contains an emphatic ṭ

These sounds are very important, because using plain s or t can make your Arabic sound noticeably non-native.

The spelling is compatible with MSA, but a Levantine learner will still find it very useful because the same basic words and structure work in Levantine too.

The biggest differences are usually:

• pronunciation
• no case endings in speech
• some vocabulary and style differences depending on context

So a Levantine speaker could use essentially this same sentence, but pronounce it in a more colloquial way, something like ir-rassām ṣammam l-iṭār, depending on the dialect.