انا غسلت شعري الصبح قبل ما اروح عالشغل.

In Levantine, the subject pronoun is often optional because the verb already shows the person. So غسلت شعري الصبح... is a perfectly natural sentence by itself.

Adding أنا can:

• make the sentence a little clearer,
• add slight emphasis,
• or simply sound natural in casual speech.

So both أنا غسلت شعري... and غسلت شعري... work.

Because of أنا. The verb غسلت is the past tense form from غسل = to wash.

In normal Arabic spelling, short vowels are not written, so غسلت can look ambiguous on its own. Depending on context, it could be read as:

• I washed
• you washed (addressing a female)

Here, أنا removes the ambiguity and tells you it means I washed.

The -ي at the end is the attached possessive suffix meaning my.

So:

• شعر = hair
• شعري = my hair

Arabic often attaches possessive pronouns directly to the noun instead of using a separate word for my.

Yes, and that is normal. In Arabic, شعر is usually treated as a collective or mass noun, like hair in English.

So شعري means my hair, not one hair. You do not need a plural here to talk about the hair on your head.

الصبح is a very common Levantine way to say the morning. In sentences like this, it often functions adverbially, so the natural English meaning is:

• in the morning
• or sometimes this morning

The exact English translation depends on context.
Also, الصبح is more colloquial than the more formal الصباح.

قبل ما is a very common expression meaning before when followed by a verb.

In this sentence:

• قبل ما أروح = before I go / before I went

The ما here does not mean not. It is just part of the fixed pattern قبل ما. So you should learn قبل ما as one chunk.

After قبل ما, Levantine usually uses the bare imperfect form, not the بـ-present form.

So you get:

• قبل ما أروح = before I go / before I went

Not usually:

• قبل ما بروح

This is a common pattern in Levantine after words like before, when, if, and similar clause-introducing expressions.

Because the time reference comes from the whole sentence, not just that one verb form.

The main verb is past:

• غسلت = I washed

So قبل ما أروح عالشغل is understood as something that happened before going to work on that occasion. In natural English, that often becomes:

• before I went to work

So even though أروح is not a past-tense form by itself, the sentence as a whole clearly refers to a past event.

عالشغل is a colloquial contraction of:

• على الشغل

In speech and informal writing, على الـ often becomes عالـ.

So:

• عالشغل = to work / to the workplace / at work, depending on context

Here, with أروح, it means to work or to the workplace:

• أروح عالشغل = go to work

Arabic and English do not use articles in the same way. In Levantine, الشغل with الـ is very natural in this expression.

So even though a word-for-word English translation might look like the work, the real meaning is simply:

• work
• or the workplace

This is one of those places where you should trust the Arabic pattern rather than expect it to match English exactly.

Because this is Levantine Arabic, not formal written Arabic. In everyday Levantine, the usual verb for to go is:

• راح / يروح

So:

• أروح = I go

The more formal or Modern Standard Arabic verb would be:

• أذهب

A formal version of the sentence would sound different, but أروح is exactly what you expect in natural Levantine speech.

The given order is very natural, but Arabic word order is flexible.

You could also say things like:

• الصبح غسلت شعري قبل ما أروح عالشغل
• قبل ما أروح عالشغل، غسلت شعري الصبح

These versions are still understandable, but they shift the emphasis slightly. The original sentence sounds like a normal, everyday conversational way to say it.