اختي مريضة كمان، ومشان هيك ما راحت عالجامعة.

In Levantine Arabic, present-tense sentences like my sister is sick usually do not use a separate verb for is.

So:

اختي مريضة
literally looks like my sister sick,
but it naturally means my sister is sick.

This is very normal in Arabic. If you wanted past or future, then a verb would appear.

اخت or أخت means sister.

When you add the suffix -ي, it means my:

اخت + ي = اختي
so اختي = my sister

In Levantine writing, people often skip some formal spelling details, so you may see اختي instead of the more standard أختي. In speech, it is often pronounced something like ekhti or ikhti, depending on the speaker and region.

Because it describes اختي, which is feminine.

In Arabic, adjectives usually:

• come after the noun
• agree with the noun in gender and number

So:

• مريض = sick, masculine
• مريضة = sick, feminine

Since sister is feminine, the sentence uses مريضة.

كمان usually means also, too, or as well in Levantine.

So:

اختي مريضة كمان
means My sister is sick too / also

It adds the idea that this is true in addition to something already mentioned or understood from context.

That position is very natural in Levantine.

Putting كمان after مريضة makes the whole statement my sister is sick too.

Arabic word order is often flexible, but this placement sounds very normal and conversational. English learners sometimes expect also to go before the adjective, but in Levantine, كمان often comes later in the clause.

مشان هيك is a very common Levantine expression meaning:

• so
• that’s why
• for that reason

Breaking it down:

• مشان can mean for, because of, or be part of expressions of reason/purpose
• هيك means like this / this way

But as a fixed phrase, مشان هيك is best understood as so / that’s why.

The و at the beginning is just and, but in English you would often translate the whole thing naturally as just so.

In Levantine, a very common way to negate a past verb is:

ما + past verb

So:

• راحت = she went
• ما راحت = she didn’t go

That is the normal pattern here.
So ما راحت عالجامعة means she didn’t go to the university.

راحت is the past tense, feminine singular form of راح / يروح meaning to go.

Here the subject is اختي = my sister, so the verb must be feminine singular.

Compare:

• راح = he went
• راحت = she went

So ما راحت specifically tells you she didn’t go.

Yes. عالجامعة is a colloquial contraction of:

على الجامعة

In Levantine, على + ال often becomes عالـ in speech and writing.

So:

• على الجامعة
• becomes عالجامعة

This is very common in everyday Arabic.

This is one of those places where Arabic and English use different prepositions.

In Levantine, with verbs of movement like راح (went), speakers often use على where English would use to.

So:

راح عالجامعة
literally looks like went on/to the university,
but the natural meaning is simply went to the university.

You should learn it as a common Levantine pattern rather than translate the preposition word-for-word.

It is clearly colloquial Levantine.

The biggest clues are:

• كمان instead of more formal أيضًا
• مشان هيك instead of لذلك or ولهذا السبب
• عالجامعة as a spoken contraction
• the overall conversational style

A more MSA-like version would be something like:

أختي مريضة أيضًا، ولذلك لم تذهب إلى الجامعة.

So the sentence you were given is much more natural for everyday Levantine speech.

A simple approximate pronunciation would be:

ekhti mriiDa kmaan, w-mshaan heek ma raaHat 3al-jaam3a

A few notes:

• خ in اختي is like the ch in German Bach or Scottish loch
• ض in مريضة is a heavy/emphatic d
• ح in راحت is a stronger, breathier h
• ع in عالجامعة is a throat sound that English does not really have

You do not need perfect pronunciation right away; the main thing is recognizing the chunking:

اختي مريضة كمان
ومشان هيك
ما راحت عالجامعة

Yes. Levantine has several common ways to say so / that’s why, for example:

• مشان هيك
• عشان هيك
• لهيك

They are all common, though what sounds most natural can vary by region. In this sentence, مشان هيك sounds very normal and conversational.