رديت عالايميل بعد الاجتماع.

Here رديت means I replied or I responded.

The base verb is ردّ / يردّ, which is a very common verb meaning to reply, answer, respond, return depending on context.

So in this sentence:

• رديت = I replied
• عالايميل = to the email
• بعد الاجتماع = after the meeting

Because this is the past tense, first person singular in Levantine Arabic.

With this verb, the I form in the past is:

• ردّيت / often written رديت = I replied

That -يت ending is very common in Levantine for I did... in the past:

• حكيت = I spoke
• نسيت = I forgot
• مشيت = I walked

So you do not need a separate word for I unless you want extra emphasis.

Because Arabic often puts the subject inside the verb.

In رديت, the ending already tells you the subject is I. So أنا is optional.

You could say:

• أنا رديت عالايميل بعد الاجتماع

but that usually adds emphasis, like I replied to the email after the meeting.

Without أنا, the sentence is completely normal and natural.

عالايميل is a spoken contraction of على الإيميل.

In Levantine speech:

• على
  • الـ often becomes عالـ

So:

• على الإيميل → عالايميل

In this sentence, على is used in the sense of to or to/from in connection with replying. This is very natural in spoken Levantine with verbs like ردّ.

So:

• رديت عالايميل = I replied to the email

Yes, على often literally means on / on top of / onto, but prepositions do not match English one-to-one.

With some verbs in Arabic, على is the normal preposition even when English uses to.

So in Levantine:

• ردّ على = reply to
• جاوب على = answer

That means:

• رديت عالسؤال = I replied to the question
• جاوبت عالتلفون = I answered the phone

So this is just something to learn as part of the verb pattern: ردّ على.

A learner-friendly pronunciation would be something like:

• ʿal-email

The first sound, ع, is the Arabic letter ʿayn. English does not really have it, so many learners approximate it at first. That is normal.

Also note:

• على in fast Levantine speech is often pronounced more like ʿa-la
• الـ joins right after it
• so على الإيميل becomes عالايميل

You will often hear it smoothly as one chunk rather than two separate words.

It is a borrowed word from English: email.

In Levantine, people very commonly use borrowed tech words like:

• إيميل = email
• موبايل = mobile phone
• كمبيوتر = computer

So عالايميل is very natural spoken Levantine.

Depending on the speaker, you may also hear more Arabic-based or more formal alternatives in other contexts, but إيميل is extremely common in everyday speech.

It means after the meeting.

Breakdown:

• بعد = after
• الاجتماع = the meeting

So the phrase tells you when the reply happened.

In this sentence, the most natural reading is:

• First the meeting happened
• Then I replied to the email

Because it means the meeting, not just a meeting.

• اجتماع = a meeting / meeting
• الاجتماع = the meeting

So:

• بعد اجتماع could mean after a meeting
• بعد الاجتماع means after the meeting

That الـ is the definite article, like the in English.

Yes. Arabic word order is fairly flexible, especially in everyday Levantine.

The original sentence:

• رديت عالايميل بعد الاجتماع

is very natural.

You could also hear:

• بعد الاجتماع رديت عالايميل

This puts more focus on the time phrase after the meeting.

Both are normal. The difference is mostly about emphasis and flow, not basic meaning.

Yes, sometimes, but they are not always identical.

• رديت = I replied / responded
• جاوبت = I answered

In many everyday situations they overlap, especially with messages, questions, and phones.

For example:

• رديت عالايميل = I replied to the email
• جاوبت عالايميل may be understood, but رديت sounds more natural for replying to an email

So for this sentence, رديت is a very good choice.

In more formal Arabic, especially closer to MSA, you would more likely say something like:

• رددتُ على البريد الإلكتروني بعد الاجتماع
• or أجبتُ على البريد الإلكتروني بعد الاجتماع

But in natural spoken Levantine, رديت عالايميل بعد الاجتماع sounds much more everyday and conversational.

So if your goal is spoken Levantine, the sentence you have is exactly the kind of phrasing you want to learn.

A common Levantine negated version would be:

• ما رديت عالايميل بعد الاجتماع = I didn’t reply to the email after the meeting

In many Levantine varieties, ما is enough for negation with past-tense verbs.

So:

• رديت = I replied
• ما رديت = I didn’t reply

That is a very useful pattern to remember.