اليوم رحت عالمطعم لحالي، بس بكرا منروح سوا.

A natural Levantine pronunciation would be something like:

il-yōm reḥet ʿal-maṭʿam laḥāli, bas bukra mnrūḥ sawa.

A few notes:

• اليوم → il-yōm = today
• رحت → reḥet or riḥet depending on region/speaker
• عالمطعم → ʿal-maṭʿam = to the restaurant
• لحالي → laḥāli = alone / by myself
• بس → bas = but
• بكرا → bukra = tomorrow
• منروح → mnrūḥ = we go / we’re going
• سوا → sawa = together

The exact vowels can vary a bit across Levantine dialects, but this is a good general pronunciation.

رحت means I went.

It comes from the verb راح / يروح in Levantine, which often means to go.

So:

• رحت = I went
• رحتَ = you went (to a male)
• رحتِ = you went (to a female)

In this sentence, اليوم رحت عالمطعم لحالي means Today I went to the restaurant by myself / alone.

In Arabic, the verb often already shows who the subject is, so the pronoun is usually unnecessary.

• رحت already means I went
• منروح already means we go / we’re going

So native speakers often leave out أنا and نحنا unless they want emphasis or contrast.

For example:

• أنا رحت، مو هو = I went, not him
• But normally just رحت is enough

This is very common in both Levantine and other Arabic varieties.

عالمطعم is basically:

• عَ = short form of على in colloquial speech
• المطعم = the restaurant

So:

• عالمطعم = to the restaurant or literally something like on/to the restaurant

In Levantine, عـ / عَ is extremely common and often replaces على in everyday speech.

Examples:

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

So رحت عالمطعم is the natural colloquial way to say I went to the restaurant.

لحالي means alone, by myself, or on my own.

It is made from:

• لـ = roughly by / to / for
• حالي = myself / my own state

So the whole expression means something like by myself.

Common related forms are:

• لحالي = by myself
• لحالك = by yourself (to a male)
• لحالكِ = by yourself (to a female)
• لحالو = by himself
• لحالها = by herself
• لحالنا = by ourselves

This is a very common Levantine pattern.

Yes, in many contexts you can.

Both can mean alone / by myself, but لحالي is very natural and common in Levantine everyday speech.

So these are both possible:

• رحت عالمطعم لحالي
• رحت عالمطعم وحدي

That said, لحالي often sounds especially colloquial and conversational in Levantine.

Good question. بس can mean different things depending on context.

Here, بس means but:

• اليوم رحت عالمطعم لحالي، بس بكرا منروح سوا
• Today I went to the restaurant alone, but tomorrow we’re going together

In other contexts, بس can also mean only / just.

For example:

• بس هيك = just like that
• بدي قهوة بس = I only want coffee

So you have to understand it from context. In this sentence, it clearly means but.

In Levantine, the present-tense form منروح means we go.

The مـ / mn- beginning here marks the we form of the verb.

Compare:

• بروح = I go
• بتروح = you go / she goes
• بيروح = he goes
• منروح = we go

So بكرا منروح سوا literally means Tomorrow we go together, which in English is naturally Tomorrow we’ll go together.

Because in Levantine, a time word like بكرا (tomorrow) is often enough to make the future meaning clear.

So:

• بكرا منروح سوا = Tomorrow we go / we’ll go together

That is perfectly natural.

You can also hear an explicit future marker in many dialects, such as:

• بكرا رح نروح سوا
• بكرا حنروح سوا in some varieties

But speakers often leave it out when the time expression already makes the meaning obvious.

In Levantine Arabic, the present tense usually has person prefixes that differ a bit from what learners may know from Modern Standard Arabic.

In Levantine:

• منروح = we go

In Modern Standard Arabic, you would expect:

• نذهب
• or نروح in some contexts if using a more informal or mixed style

So منروح is a very normal Levantine colloquial form. If you’ve studied MSA first, this may look unusual, but it is standard for spoken Levantine.

سوا means together.

In this sentence:

• بكرا منروح سوا = Tomorrow we’ll go together

It often comes near the end of the clause, after the verb, but word order can vary.

Examples:

• أكلنا سوا = We ate together
• رح نسافر سوا = We’ll travel together
• بدنا نروح سوا = We want to go together

It is a very common everyday word in Levantine.

Putting time expressions at the beginning is very common in Arabic, especially in conversation.

So:

• اليوم رحت عالمطعم لحالي
• بكرا منروح سوا

This structure helps set the scene immediately:

• Today...
• Tomorrow...

English does this too, but Arabic uses this pattern very naturally and often.

You could change the order, but the sentence as given sounds very normal and smooth.

It is clearly colloquial Levantine, not Modern Standard Arabic.

Signs of Levantine include:

• رحت with راح / يروح used as go
• عالمطعم instead of a more formal structure
• لحالي
• بس as but
• بكرا
• منروح
• سوا

A more formal MSA-style version would look different, for example:

• ذهبتُ اليوم إلى المطعم وحدي، لكن غدًا سنذهب معًا.

So if you are learning spoken Levantine, the original sentence is exactly the kind of everyday Arabic you want to understand.

Yes. It sounds very everyday and native-like because it uses common spoken Levantine choices:

• اليوم and بكرا for time
• رحت for I went
• عالمطعم instead of a more formal wording
• لحالي for alone
• بس for but
• منروح سوا for we’ll go together

It is the kind of sentence someone might actually say in casual conversation, not a textbook-style formal sentence. That makes it very useful for learners of spoken Arabic.