سألني الدكتور اذا اخدت الدوا بعد الفطور.

سألني breaks down as:

• سأل = he asked
• -ني = me

So سألني literally means he asked me.

That -ني is an attached object pronoun. Arabic uses these attached pronouns a lot, so instead of saying a separate word for me, it often gets added to the verb.

Because Arabic often allows verb-first word order.

So:

• سألني الدكتور = The doctor asked me
• الدكتور سألني = also possible, with a slightly different feel

In Levantine, both are natural. Starting with the verb can sound especially natural in storytelling or when reporting something that happened.

Not always. دكتور can mean:

• a medical doctor
• a person with a PhD
• sometimes a university instructor, depending on context

In this sentence, because it mentions medicine and after breakfast, the natural meaning is a medical doctor.

Here اذا means if / whether in an indirect question:

• The doctor asked me if/whether...

That is different from a real conditional sentence like If it rains, we’ll stay home.

In Levantine, this word is very often pronounced iza and is often written informally as إذا or إزا.

So in this sentence, اذا introduces what the doctor asked.

Yes. اخدت is the colloquial Levantine form/spelling corresponding to formal أخذت.

A few things are happening here:

• In everyday writing, people often drop the hamza spelling details.
• In spoken Levantine, the verb is usually said more like akhad- than the full formal pronunciation.

So:

• Formal / MSA: أخذت
• Colloquial Levantine writing: اخدت

This is very common in dialect writing.

Without vowel marks, اخدت can be ambiguous in writing.

Depending on context, it can represent:

• I took
• you took (masculine singular)
• sometimes she took, depending on the dialect pronunciation being represented

In real life, context tells you which one is meant. Since you already have the meaning shown, that tells you how to read it here.

This kind of ambiguity is normal in unvowelled Arabic writing.

Yes. الدوا is the colloquial Levantine word for the medicine, corresponding to formal الدواء.

So:

• الدواء = formal / MSA
• الدوا = everyday Levantine

Learners should get used to this kind of shortening in dialect.

Here Arabic works very similarly to English. The verb أخذ / ياخد (to take) can take a direct object.

So:

• اخدت الدوا = I/you took the medicine

No extra preposition is needed.

Yes, in Levantine الفطور normally means breakfast.

So:

• بعد الفطور = after breakfast

A related note:

• فطور = breakfast
• غدا = lunch
• عشا = dinner/supper

In some regions you may hear slightly different vowel patterns, but الفطور is a very common Levantine word for breakfast.

Usually it just means after breakfast, not necessarily immediately after.

So it could mean:

• after finishing breakfast
• later in the morning, following breakfast

The exact timing depends on context, just like in English.

This is a good pronunciation question. In both الدكتور and الدوا, the ل of ال is not pronounced normally, because د is a sun letter.

So:

• الدكتور is pronounced roughly id-doktoor / ed-doktoor
• الدوا is pronounced roughly id-dawa / ed-dawa

But in الفطور, the ف is a moon letter, so the ل is pronounced:

• الفطور = il-ftoor / el-ftoor

This is why the spelling stays the same but the pronunciation changes.

A rough pronunciation would be:

sa'alni d-doktoor iza akhadet id-dawa ba'd il-ftoor

Depending on the region, you may hear small differences such as:

• ed- instead of id-
• slightly different vowels in akhadet / akhadt
• a lighter or heavier pronunciation of some consonants

But that version is a good practical guide.

A more formal / MSA version would be:

سألني الطبيب إذا أخذتُ الدواء بعد الفطور.

Main differences:

• الطبيب instead of الدكتور for the doctor/physician
• أخذتُ instead of colloquial اخدت
• الدواء instead of الدوا

So the sentence you were given is clearly more everyday Levantine, while this version is more formal Arabic.