دورة الغسيل اخدت حوالي ساعة وطويت الملابس.

دورة الغسيل means the wash cycle or washing cycle.

This is a construct phrase (called iḍāfa):

• دورة = cycle
• الغسيل = the washing / the laundry

So literally it is cycle of the washing.

A useful detail: in this structure, the ة in دورة is pronounced as -t, so you say something like dawret il-ghaseel, not dawra.

Because the subject is دورة, and دورة is grammatically feminine singular.

So the verb has to agree with it in the past tense:

• أخذ / أخد = he took
• أخذت / اخدت = she took / it took

Here دورة الغسيل اخدت means the wash cycle took.

Even though دورة is an object, not a female person, Arabic still treats it as grammatically feminine.

In informal Levantine writing, people often drop hamzas in spelling. So اخدت is a very common colloquial way to write what is historically related to أخذت.

So this is mostly a dialect spelling choice, not a change in meaning.

You will often see this kind of thing in casual Arabic writing:

• اخد instead of أخذ
• اكل instead of أكل
• اجا instead of a more formal spelling style

حوالي means about, around, or approximately.

So:

• حوالي ساعة = about an hour

It is commonly used with time, numbers, and quantities:

• حوالي عشر دقايق = about ten minutes
• حوالي خمسين شخص = about fifty people

In normal Levantine writing, short case endings are not written, and in speech they are not used the way they are in Standard Arabic.

So ساعة here is just the normal dialect form meaning an hour.

Also, it is indefinite because the meaning is about an hour, not about the hour.

It means I folded the clothes.

Breakdown:

• طويت = I folded
• الملابس = the clothes

So the speaker is saying two past actions:

1. the wash cycle took about an hour
2. I folded the clothes

It is understandable, but it sounds a bit closer to Standard Arabic or a mixed register.

In everyday Levantine, many speakers would more naturally say طيّت for I folded.

So:

• طويت الملابس = correct and understandable
• طيّت الملابس / طيّت التياب = often more colloquial

This sentence sounds natural enough, but it mixes colloquial and more formal elements.

Yes, it is correct and fully understandable, but it sounds a bit more formal or neutral than everyday colloquial speech.

In casual Levantine, many people often say:

• التياب
• الهدوم

So:

• الملابس = clothes, a bit more formal
• التياب / الهدوم = clothes, more everyday speech

و literally means and, but in context it often also gives a sense of sequence.

So اخدت حوالي ساعة وطويت الملابس can naturally be understood as:

• It took about an hour, and I folded the clothes
• or more loosely, It took about an hour, then I folded the clothes

Arabic often lets context do that work without adding a separate word for then.

Yes. This word order is very natural.

The sentence starts with the subject:

• دورة الغسيل

Then comes the verb:

• اخدت

That subject-first pattern is very common in Levantine speech.

So دورة الغسيل اخدت حوالي ساعة sounds normal and conversational.

A rough pronunciation is:

dawret il-ghaseel akhadet hawali saʿa w-ṭawayt il-malabes

A few helpful notes:

• دورة becomes dawret here because of the construct phrase
• غ is a throaty sound, often like a French r
• و is pronounced w
• ط is a heavier, deeper t

If you want a more colloquial-sounding Levantine version, you might hear something closer to:

dawret il-ghaseel akhadet hawali saʿa w-ṭayyet il-tyaab

It is best described as a mix, but a very understandable one.

What feels colloquial:

• اخدت

What feels more standard or formal:

• طويت
• الملابس

A more everyday Levantine version might be something like:

دورة الغسيل أخدت حوالي ساعة وطيّت التياب

So the original sentence is fine, but not purely casual spoken Levantine from start to finish.