مبارح كمان رحت عالشغل الصبح.

This is Levantine Arabic, not Modern Standard Arabic.

You can tell from words and structures like:

• مبارح = yesterday
• كمان = also / too
• عالشغل = a spoken contraction meaning to work / to the workplace

In Modern Standard Arabic, the same idea would be expressed quite differently.

مبارح means yesterday.

Yes, it is a very common dialect word in Levantine. In Modern Standard Arabic, the usual word is أمس.

So if you hear مبارح in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, or Palestine, that is completely normal everyday speech.

Here, كمان means also, too, or as well.

So the sentence has the sense of:

• Yesterday too, I went to work in the morning
• or I also went to work yesterday morning

It usually adds the whole statement, not just one single word.

In other contexts, كمان can also sound like again in English, but its basic meaning is also / too.

Because رحت already tells you the subject is I.

In Levantine Arabic, verbs often include the subject inside the verb form itself. So:

• رحت = I went

You could add أنا for emphasis:

• أنا رحت عالشغل الصبح

But in normal speech, it is usually omitted because it is already clear.

رحت is the past tense form meaning I went.

It comes from the verb راح = to go.

So:

• راح = he went
• رحت = I went

A useful thing to know: in the first person singular, this form is the same whether the speaker is male or female. So both a man and a woman can say رحت.

عالشغل is a spoken contraction of على الشغل.

Word by word:

• على / عَ = to, on, at depending on context
• الشغل = the work / the job / work

In this sentence, رحت عالشغل means I went to work or I went to the workplace.

A very important point: in Levantine, على is often used with motion verbs in places where English uses to.

So even though على often literally means on, here the natural translation is simply to work.

Because in everyday speech, Levantine Arabic often shortens على ال... to عال....

So:

• على الشغل becomes عالشغل

This is extremely common in speech and informal writing.

So عالشغل is not a different word; it is just the normal contracted spoken form.

Because ش is a sun letter.

When ال comes before a sun letter, the ل sound assimilates into the next consonant. So:

• الشغل is pronounced roughly like ash-shughl, not al-shughl

That is why على الشغل in fast speech becomes something like عالشّغل.

The spelling stays the same, but the pronunciation changes.

الصبح means the morning or in the morning.

In this sentence, because مبارح is already there, the meaning is naturally:

• yesterday morning

So the full idea is not just some general morning, but specifically the morning of yesterday.

In Levantine, using ال in time expressions like الصبح is very normal.

Because Levantine word order is flexible, and this order is natural.

The speaker first gives a broad time frame:

• مبارح = yesterday

Then later adds a more specific time:

• الصبح = in the morning

So the sentence builds up like this:

• Yesterday also, I went to work, in the morning

You could also hear:

• مبارح الصبح رحت عالشغل
• مبارح الصبح كمان رحت عالشغل

Those are also natural, but the emphasis shifts a little.

It can mean any of those, depending on context.

In رحت عالشغل, the most natural English translation is usually:

• I went to work

But the Arabic word الشغل can refer to:

• work as an activity
• a job
• the workplace

So the exact nuance depends on the situation, but in this sentence it most likely means going to your workplace / going to work.

A rough pronunciation is:

mbāreḥ kamān reḥet ʿaš-šuġel eṣ-ṣobḥ

Depending on the exact Levantine variety, the vowels may sound a little different, but the important things to notice are:

• مبارح starts with m-
• عالشغل sounds like ʿash-shughl
• الصبح sounds like eṣ-ṣobḥ because of sun-letter assimilation

Regional pronunciation varies, so do not worry if you hear slightly different vowels from different speakers.