الحكومة عندها خطة جديدة.

A natural Levantine-style pronunciation is:

el-ḥkūme ʿinda khiṭṭa jdīde

A few useful notes:

• el- = the
• ḥ is a strong, breathy h
• kh is like the sound in German Bach or Scottish loch
• ṭ is an emphatic t
• the final ة is usually pronounced -e in Levantine speech

Also, depending on the region:

• عندها may sound more like ʿinda in fast speech
• ج in جديدة may sound like English j in some accents, and more like zh in others

So you may hear slightly different versions, but they all match the same written sentence.

Here is the breakdown:

• الحكومة = the government
• عندها = it has / she has
  Literally, this comes from عند
  • ها, so it is something like at her/it
• خطة = plan
• جديدة = new

So the structure is basically:

• the government
  • has
    • a new plan

A very literal way to think of it is:

• The government, at-it, [there is] a new plan

That sounds strange in English, but it is a normal Arabic way to express possession.

In Levantine Arabic, possession is very often expressed with عند plus a pronoun or noun.

So instead of using a separate verb like English have, Arabic often says something closer to:

• at me
• at you
• at him/her
• and then the thing possessed

For example:

• عندي سيارة = I have a car
• عندك وقت؟ = Do you have time?
• عندها خطة = She/it has a plan

So عندها is one of the most common everyday ways to say has in Levantine.

The ending -ها refers back to الحكومة.

That suffix means her / it, and it is used because الحكومة is grammatically feminine.

This is an important point: in Arabic, nouns have grammatical gender. Since حكومة ends in ة, it is feminine, so speakers use the feminine suffix:

• عندها = it has for a feminine noun
• compare عنده = he has / it has for a masculine noun

So even though government is not literally female, Arabic grammar treats الحكومة as feminine.

Because Arabic does not use the present-tense verb to be the way English does, and it also often avoids a direct verb to have.

This sentence is a good example of both:

• there is no present-tense is
• possession is expressed through عند

So instead of something shaped like:

• The government is having a new plan

Arabic uses a nominal structure:

• The government
  • at-it
    • a new plan

This is completely normal in both Levantine and other varieties of Arabic.

خطة is indefinite because the meaning is a new plan, not the new plan.

In Arabic, a noun is usually indefinite when it does not have ال:

• خطة = a plan
• الخطة = the plan

As for the missing -n sound: in formal Arabic, indefinite nouns can have tanween, but in Levantine everyday speech those endings are not pronounced.

So in dialect you simply say:

• خطة جديدة

not something formal like:

• خطةٌ جديدةٌ

That is one of the big differences between spoken Levantine and formal written Arabic.

In Arabic, adjectives normally come after the noun they describe.

So:

• خطة جديدة = a new plan
• literally: plan new

Also, the adjective must agree with the noun in:

• gender
• number
• definiteness

Here:

• خطة is feminine singular
• it is indefinite

So the adjective must also be:

• feminine singular
• indefinite

That is why you get:

• جديدة

If the noun were masculine, you would use:

• جديد

For example:

• مشروع جديد = a new project

The final ة is called taa marbuuTa, and it often marks a word as grammatically feminine.

In this sentence, all three of these words are feminine in form:

• الحكومة
• خطة
• جديدة

In Levantine pronunciation, this final ة is usually heard as -e when you pause or speak naturally:

• ḥkūme
• khiṭṭa is a bit special because the word shape keeps the a
• jdīde

So the ة is one reason the learner can recognize feminine forms and agreement patterns.

Yes, this is very natural for spoken Levantine.

A more formal or Standard Arabic version would often be:

• لدى الحكومة خطة جديدة
• or الحكومة لديها خطة جديدة

In spoken Levantine, عندها is more everyday and conversational.

You can also notice pronunciation differences between formal Arabic and Levantine:

• حكومة in formal Arabic: ḥukūma
• in Levantine speech: ḥkūme
• جديدة in formal Arabic: jadīda
• in Levantine speech: jdīde

So the written sentence is easy to understand across Arabic, but the feel of it is very much everyday spoken Arabic.

You might hear معها used for possession in some contexts, but عندها is the safer and more neutral choice here.

Very roughly:

• عندها = has
• معها = with her/it, and sometimes by extension has

So:

• الحكومة عندها خطة جديدة sounds very natural for The government has a new plan
• الحكومة معها خطة جديدة may sound more like The government has a new plan with it / on hand, depending on context

For a learner, عندها is the best everyday pattern to remember for this sentence.