الولد وصل عالجامعة بعد ساعة.

A common Levantine pronunciation would be:

il-walad weṣel ʿal-jāmʿa baʿd sāʿa

A few notes:

• الولد → il-walad
• وصل → often weṣel or wiṣel, depending on region/speaker
• عالجامعة → ʿal-jāmʿa
• بعد ساعة → baʿd sāʿa

Also, جامعة in colloquial Levantine is often pronounced more like jāmʿa, not the fuller MSA-style jāmiʿa.

Because الولد means the boy, while ولد means a boy / boy.

In Levantine, if you want a noun to be definite, you usually add الـ just like in Standard Arabic:

• ولد = a boy
• الولد = the boy

Unlike English, Arabic does not normally use a separate word for a/an. The bare noun often does that job.

Because in Levantine, both subject-first and verb-first word order are possible.

So you can have:

• الولد وصل عالجامعة بعد ساعة
• وصل الولد عالجامعة بعد ساعة

The version with الولد first sounds a bit more like you are introducing or focusing on the boy as the topic: The boy arrived at the university after an hour.

The verb-first version can sound a bit more narrative: The boy arrived...

Both are natural.

وصل means arrived or reached.

In this sentence, it means that the boy arrived at the university.

It is the past tense, masculine singular form, matching الولد.

عالجامعة is basically:

عَ + الجامعة
or historically على + الجامعة

In Levantine, عَ is a very common colloquial preposition meaning something like to / at / on, depending on context. With the definite article ال, it often becomes عال in pronunciation and writing:

• عَ البيت / عالبيت = to the house / at the house
• عَ الجامعة / عالجامعة = to the university / at the university

So عالجامعة is a natural Levantine way to say to the university or at the university, depending on the verb and context.

That is a very common learner question.

In Modern Standard Arabic, you often see:

• وصل إلى الجامعة

But in Levantine, everyday speech usually prefers عَ with many destinations:

• وصل عالجامعة

So this is a dialect feature, not a mistake.
In Levantine, وصل عَ... is very normal and idiomatic.

In informal Levantine writing, people often write it as one chunk: عالجامعة.

That reflects the way it is pronounced: ʿal-jāmʿa.

But colloquial Arabic spelling is not fully standardized, so you may also see spacing vary. What matters most is understanding that it is made of:

• عَ / على
• الجامعة

So even if the writing changes a little, the structure is the same.

بعد ساعة literally means after an hour.

In context, it usually means:

• an hour later
• after one hour
• sometimes in an hour, depending on the situation

So the exact English wording depends on the wider context. But the core idea is that one hour passed before the arrival.

Because Arabic often uses a singular noun by itself to mean one of something in expressions like this.

So:

• ساعة can mean an hour
• يوم can mean a day
• سنة can mean a year

You could say بعد ساعة وحدة in colloquial speech for extra emphasis, but it is not necessary here.
بعد ساعة already naturally means after an hour.

Because this is Levantine Arabic, not fully inflected Modern Standard Arabic.

In everyday Levantine speech:

• case endings are dropped
• tanwīn is generally not pronounced
• words appear in a simpler spoken form

So instead of something like an MSA-style fully inflected pronunciation, you just get:

• ساعة
• جامعة
• وصل

This is completely normal in dialect.

Yes, it is the same word, meaning university, but the pronunciation is more colloquial in Levantine.

In Standard Arabic, it is often pronounced more like:

jāmiʿa

In Levantine, it is commonly shortened to something like:

jāmʿa

So the word is the same historically, but the spoken form is more compressed.

Yes. ولد can mean boy or son, depending on context.

So الولد could mean:

• the boy
• the son

In this sentence, if the meaning shown to the learner is the boy, that is perfectly natural. But in another context, a speaker might understand it as the son.

Sometimes you may hear different prepositions depending on speaker, region, and context, but وصل عالجامعة is a very natural Levantine phrasing.

So for a learner, the safest takeaway is:

• with وصل in Levantine, عَ is very common for destinations

If you use عالجامعة here, it will sound idiomatic and colloquial.

Because this is the past tense, third person masculine singular form.

It matches الولد, which is singular and masculine.

So:

• هو وصل = he arrived
• الولد وصل = the boy arrived

That bare form is the normal past-tense form for he in Levantine and Standard Arabic alike, aside from pronunciation differences.