مبارح رحت عالبيت بتاكسي.

A common Levantine pronunciation is:

mbāreḥ reḥet ʿal-bēt b-tāksi

A rough English-friendly guide:

• مبارح → mbaa-rekh / mbaa-reh = yesterday
• رحت → reḥet = I went
• عالبيت → ʿal-bēt = to the house / home
• بتاكسي → b-tāksi = by taxi

Notes:

• The sound ḥ is a stronger, breathier h.
• The sound ʿ (ع) is a consonant English does not really have; many learners start by just noticing it rather than mastering it immediately.

Here is the breakdown:

• مبارح = yesterday
• رحت = I went
• عالبيت = to the house / home
• بتاكسي = by taxi

So the structure is:

• time
  • verb
    • destination
      • means of transport

Very literally, it is something like:

Yesterday, I went home by taxi.

Because رحت is the past tense, first person singular form of the verb راح in Levantine, which means to go.

So:

• راح = he went
• رحت = I went
• رِحت / رحت is the form you use for I

Arabic verbs usually show the subject inside the verb itself, so you do not need to say أنا unless you want emphasis.

So:

• رحت = I went
• أنا رحت = I went / I went (more emphasis)

In Arabic, the verb often already tells you who did the action.

In رحت, the ending tells you it is I went, so the pronoun is understood.

This is very normal in Levantine.
You can add أنا if you want contrast or emphasis, but it is not necessary.

Examples:

• رحت عالبيت = I went home
• أنا رحت عالبيت = I went home / I went home

Because this sentence is in Levantine Arabic, not Modern Standard Arabic.

In Levantine, مبارح is the everyday word for yesterday.

In MSA, you would usually say:

• أمس

So this is a good example of how spoken Arabic differs from formal written Arabic.

عالبيت is a contraction of:

• على + البيت → عالبيت

In Levantine, على often gets shortened before الـ to عالـ.

So:

• على البيت becomes عالبيت

Even though على often means on, in colloquial Arabic it can also be used in expressions of movement, especially with places, where English would often say to.

So here:

• عالبيت = to the house / home

This is very natural in Levantine speech.

Arabic often uses the house where English would simply say home.

So:

• رحت عالبيت literally = I went to the house
• natural English meaning = I went home

This is a very common translation difference.
You should not always translate word-for-word.

The prefix بـ here is a preposition meaning by, with, or sometimes in, depending on context.

So:

• بتاكسي = by taxi

This is how Arabic commonly expresses means of transport.

Other examples:

• بالسيارة = by car
• بالباص = by bus
• بالطيارة = by plane

So the pattern is very useful:

• بـ + vehicle = by means of that vehicle

It is a borrowed word, but it is completely normal and widely used in Arabic.

• تاكسي = taxi

In more formal Arabic, you might also hear:

• سيارة أجرة = taxi

But in everyday Levantine, تاكسي is extremely common.

Yes. Arabic word order is flexible, especially in spoken dialects.

These can all sound natural depending on emphasis:

• مبارح رحت عالبيت بتاكسي
• رحت عالبيت بتاكسي مبارح
• بتاكسي رحت عالبيت مبارح

The original sentence is very natural because it starts with the time expression مبارح, which sets the scene first.

A learner-friendly way to think of it is:

• Arabic often likes to begin with time or context
• English can do that too: Yesterday, I went home by taxi

Yes, quite different.

A more MSA-style version would be something like:

ذهبتُ إلى البيت أمس بسيارة أجرة

Compare the parts:

• مبارح → أمس
• رحت → ذهبتُ
• عالبيت → إلى البيت
• بتاكسي → بسيارة أجرة

So the Levantine sentence is much more conversational and natural for everyday speech.

Yes. In less compressed writing, you may see:

• عالبيت
• ع البيت
• sometimes even على البيت

In informal Levantine writing, spelling is not always fully standardized.

All of these are trying to represent the same spoken form.
For learners, the important thing is to recognize that they all point to the same idea:

• to the house / home

Three very useful Levantine patterns:

1. مبارح = a very common everyday time word
2. رحت = past tense I went
3. بـ + transport = by some means of transport

So from this one sentence, you can build many others:

• مبارح رحت عالشغل بالباص = Yesterday I went to work by bus
• مبارح رحت عالجامعة بالسيارة = Yesterday I went to the university by car
• اليوم رحت عالسوق مشي = Today I went to the market on foot

This makes the sentence a great model for building your own Levantine sentences.