رحنا عالمحكمة مبارح.

A common Levantine pronunciation is:

reḥna ʿal-maḥkame mbāreḥ

A few notes:

• ر = rolled or tapped r
• ḥ = a stronger, breathier h sound from the throat
• ʿ = the sound of ع, a consonant that English does not have
• Final ة in Levantine is often pronounced -e / -eh, so محكمة sounds like maḥkame, not maḥkama

Regional pronunciation can vary a little, but this is a good model.

رحنا means we went.

It comes from the Levantine verb راح, which commonly means to go.

Breakdown:

• راح = he went
• -نا = we

So:

• رحنا = we went

This is one of the most common everyday ways to say went in Levantine Arabic.

Because the verb already includes the subject.

In رحنا, the ending -نا tells you the subject is we. So Arabic does not need a separate pronoun here.

You could add نحنا for emphasis:

• نحنا رحنا عالمحكمة مبارح

But normally it is not necessary.

In Levantine, the preposition عَ is very common and often means to, toward, at, or on, depending on context.

Here it combines with ال:

• عَ + المحكمة → عالمحكمة

So عالمحكمة is basically:

• عَ = to
• المحكمة = the court / the courthouse

This is much more colloquial and natural in Levantine than using more formal wording like إلى المحكمة.

In informal dialect writing, very often yes.

It represents a spoken contraction:

• عَ + الـ + محكمة
• pronounced together as ʿal-maḥkame

You may also see spelling variation in informal writing, such as:

• عالمحكمة
• ع المحكمة

Dialect spelling is less standardized than Modern Standard Arabic, so variation is normal.

That is a very common dialect feature.

Historically, عَ comes from على, which often means on in formal Arabic. But in Levantine speech, عَ has widened in meaning and is used in many contexts where English would say:

• to
• at
• on

So after a verb of movement like رحنا, عَ often means to:

• رحنا عالسوق = we went to the market
• رحنا عالبيت = we went home / to the house
• رحنا عالمحكمة = we went to the court

المحكمة means the court in the legal sense.

Depending on context, it can refer to:

• the court as an institution
• the courthouse building
• the legal proceedings

In this sentence, English might translate it as either:

• the court
• the courthouse

The exact nuance depends on the situation, but learners can safely understand it as the legal court.

Arabic and English do not always use definiteness in the same way.

In Arabic, it is very normal to say المحكمة with ال:

• عالمحكمة = to the court / courthouse

Even when English uses no article in an idiomatic phrase like go to court, Arabic may still prefer the definite form.

So this is not unusual. It is just the normal Arabic way of expressing it.

مبارح means yesterday, and yes, it is a very common Levantine word.

You may also see or hear:

• امبارح
• slightly different regional pronunciations

It is everyday spoken Arabic, not a formal Modern Standard Arabic word.

The Modern Standard Arabic equivalent would usually be:

• أمس

Because time expressions are flexible in Arabic, especially in spoken dialects.

This sentence puts the time word at the end:

• رحنا عالمحكمة مبارح

That sounds very natural.

But other word orders are also possible, for example:

• مبارح رحنا عالمحكمة
• رحنا مبارح عالمحكمة

The meaning stays basically the same, though the emphasis can shift slightly:

• sentence-final مبارح sounds neutral and conversational
• sentence-initial مبارح highlights yesterday

No, it is in Levantine Arabic.

A Modern Standard Arabic version would be something like:

ذهبنا إلى المحكمة أمس

Main differences:

• رحنا instead of ذهبنا
• عَ instead of إلى
• مبارح instead of أمس

So the sentence is clearly colloquial, not formal written Arabic.

No. رحنا is we went for any group:

• all male
• all female
• mixed group

In first person plural, Levantine does not make a gender distinction here.

Yes. Levantine allows some flexibility.

Natural options include:

• رحنا عالمحكمة مبارح
• مبارح رحنا عالمحكمة
• رحنا مبارح عالمحكمة

Very roughly:

• رحنا عالمحكمة مبارح = neutral, everyday statement
• مبارح رحنا عالمحكمة = emphasizes yesterday
• رحنا مبارح عالمحكمة = also natural, with the time placed earlier

So the original sentence is just one common way of saying it.

Because in Levantine, words ending in ة are often pronounced with an e/eh sound in everyday speech.

So:

• محكمة → maḥkame
• not usually maḥkama in normal Levantine pronunciation

This is one of the features that makes spoken Levantine sound different from Modern Standard Arabic.

Grammatically yes, but stylistically it would sound much more formal.

In everyday Levantine, people usually say:

• رحنا

Using ذهبنا would sound like:

• Modern Standard Arabic
• formal speech
• written language
• news or school-style Arabic

So if you want natural spoken Levantine, رحنا is the better choice here.