بدنا نروح عالسوق بعد الشغل.

A common Levantine pronunciation is:

biddna nrūḥ ʿa s-sūʾ baʿd ish-shughl

A rough breakdown:

• بدنا = biddna
• نروح = nrūḥ
• عالسوق = ʿa s-sūʾ
• بعد الشغل = baʿd ish-shughl

A few sound notes:

• ع in عالسوق is the deep throat sound ʿ
• ح in نروح is a strong h
• السوق is pronounced as-sūʾ, not al-sūʾ
• الشغل is pronounced ish-shughl or sometimes ash-shughl, depending on region and speed

بدنا means we want, we’d like, or sometimes we need to, depending on context.

It comes from the very common Levantine pattern بدّ + pronoun ending:

• بدّي = I want
• بدّك = you want
• بدّه = he wants
• بدّها = she wants
• بدّنا = we want

So in this sentence, بدنا introduces what the speakers want or intend to do.

Because colloquial Arabic does not use an infinitive the way English does.

In English, you say we want to go.
In Levantine, you say بدنا نروح, literally something like we want, we go.

So after بدنا, you normally use a conjugated verb:

• بدنا نروح = we want to go
• بدنا ناكل = we want to eat
• بدنا نحكي = we want to talk

The particle أن belongs to more formal Arabic and is usually not used in everyday Levantine speech here.

In Levantine, the present-form verb often covers the future when the context already makes it clear.

Here, بدنا already shows intention, so نروح naturally means go in the sense of go later / are going to go.

So بدنا نروح means:

• we want to go
• we’re planning to go
• we intend to go

You do not need an extra future marker here.

عالسوق is a very common colloquial Levantine way to say to the market.

It comes from:

• على = on / onto / to
• الـ = the
• سوق = market

In everyday Levantine, على often gets used with places of destination, so it can mean something like to in natural speech.

So:

• عالسوق = to the market
• عالبيت = to the house / home
• عالجامعة = to the university

By contrast, إلى السوق is much more formal and sounds like Modern Standard Arabic rather than casual Levantine conversation.

Yes. In colloquial writing, على + الـ often gets shortened to عالـ.

So:

• على السوق becomes عالسوق
• على البيت becomes عالبيت

This is very common in informal Levantine writing and closely matches how people actually speak.

You may see spacing vary in casual texts, but عالسوق is a normal way to write it.

Because of sun letters.

Both س and ش are sun letters, so the ل in الـ is not clearly pronounced. Instead, the next consonant gets doubled in pronunciation.

So:

• السوق is pronounced as-sūʾ
• الشغل is pronounced ish-shughl or ash-shughl

This happens in pronunciation, not in spelling. The spelling still uses الـ.

Because Arabic often uses the definite article where English does not.

So بعد الشغل is literally after the work, but in natural English the best translation is often just after work.

This is very normal in Arabic. The article does not always need to be translated literally.

No. You do not need it here.

The -نا in بدنا already tells you the subject is we. So the sentence is complete as it is.

You could add إحنا for emphasis or contrast:

• إحنا بدنا نروح عالسوق = we want to go to the market

But in ordinary conversation, it is usually unnecessary.

Sometimes, yes. Context matters.

بدنا most often expresses desire or intention:

• we want to
• we’d like to
• we’re planning to

But in some situations, it can sound closer to we need to.

If you want to express strong obligation more clearly, Levantine often uses لازم:

• بدنا نروح = we want to go / we should go / we need to go, depending on context
• لازم نروح = we have to go / we must go

So بدنا is usually softer than لازم.

It is specifically Levantine colloquial Arabic.

A formal Modern Standard Arabic version would be something like:

• نريد أن نذهب إلى السوق بعد العمل

Main differences:

• بدنا is colloquial; نريد is formal
• نروح is colloquial; نذهب is formal
• عالسوق is colloquial; إلى السوق is formal
• الشغل is conversational; العمل is more formal

So the original sentence is exactly the kind of thing people would naturally say in everyday Levantine speech.

Yes, definitely.

Both are common, but they have slightly different feels:

• بعد الشغل = after work
• بعد الدوام = after work / after the workday / after office hours / after the shift

الشغل is very common and broad.
الدوام often focuses more on your work hours, shift, or scheduled day.

So both are natural, depending on what nuance you want.