اذا ما اشتغل المصعد، منطلع عالطابق التاني عالدرج.

إذا means if.
The ما after it negates the verb that follows.

So:

• إذا اشتغل المصعد = if the elevator works
• إذا ما اشتغل المصعد = if the elevator doesn’t work

In English, if not often feels separate, but in Levantine this pattern is very common: إذا ما + verb.

That is very normal in Arabic conditionals.

In Levantine, after إذا, speakers often use a past-form verb even when the meaning is present or future in English. So:

• إذا ما اشتغل المصعد does not necessarily mean the elevator already failed in the past.
• It means something like if the elevator doesn’t work / if it turns out the elevator isn’t working.

So the form is past, but the meaning depends on context. In conditionals like this, English usually translates it with present or future meaning.

Because Arabic often uses verb–subject word order.

So:

• اشتغل المصعد = literally worked the elevator
• natural English = the elevator worked

This is a very common Arabic structure.
You could also hear:

• المصعد ما اشتغل

That puts the elevator first and sounds a bit more topic-focused: the elevator didn’t work.

Both patterns are natural.

Because in Levantine, ما is commonly used to negate verbs.

Here the verb is اشتغل = worked / functions, so:

• ما اشتغل = it didn’t work / it doesn’t work

By contrast, مش or مو are more commonly used with:

• nouns
• adjectives
• participles
• prepositional phrases

For example:

• مش كبير = not big
• مو هون = not here

So in this sentence, ما is the expected choice.

The verb اشتغل basically means worked or functioned.

With people, it can also mean:

• worked as in had a job
• was busy working

But with a machine or device, it usually means:

• worked
• functioned
• turned on / operated

So اشتغل المصعد means the elevator worked / the elevator was functioning.

منطلع means we go up.

It comes from the verb طلع. In Levantine, the present tense for we often starts with مـ:

• منروح = we go
• منكتب = we write
• منطلع = we go up

This m- prefix is a dialect feature. In Standard Arabic, you would expect نطلع, but in everyday Levantine the form منطلع is very common.

Yes — طلع is a very common verb with several meanings in Levantine, including:

• go up
• come out
• go out
• turn out
• sometimes appear

Here, because the sentence talks about going to a higher floor, منطلع clearly means:

• we go up
• we head up

So the context determines the exact meaning.

Grammatically it is a present-tense form, but in context it has a future-like meaning.

The sentence means something like:

• If the elevator doesn’t work, we’ll go up...
• or ...we go up...

In Levantine, the plain present often covers:

• habitual actions
• immediate plans
• future actions that are clear from context

So منطلع here is perfectly natural even though English often uses will go up.

It is really a contraction of:

• على = on / to
• الطابق = the floor

Together, in speech, they become:

• عالطابق

This kind of contraction is extremely common in Levantine:

• على البيت → عالبيت
• على الدرج → عالدرج

In this sentence, عالطابق التاني means to the second floor.
Even though على often literally means on, in Levantine it can also correspond to English to, depending on the verb.

التاني is the everyday Levantine form of second.

Compare:

• Levantine: التاني
• Standard Arabic: الثاني

So this is a normal dialect difference.

Also, it is التاني and not التانية because طابق is masculine:

• طابق تاني = second floor
• if the noun were feminine, you would use تانية

عالدرج literally comes from على الدرج, but in this sentence it means:

• by the stairs
• using the stairs
• via the stairs

So the whole phrase:

• منطلع عالطابق التاني عالدرج

means something like:

• we go up to the second floor by the stairs
• we take the stairs to the second floor

It is not a word-for-word match to English take the stairs, but that is the natural meaning.

It is definitely understood, but it can sound a bit more formal or standard-ish in everyday speech.

In casual Levantine, many speakers also say:

• الأسانسير / الأسنصير = the elevator

That borrowed word is very common in many places.

So:

• المصعد = correct and understood
• الأسانسير = often more everyday colloquial

A simple rough pronunciation would be:

iza ma ishtaġal il-maṣʿad, mnitlaʿ ʿaṭ-ṭābeʔ it-tēne ʿad-daraj

A few useful notes:

• ع is a consonant with no exact English equivalent.
• ط is a heavier/emphatic t.
• عالطابق is pronounced as one flowing chunk, not as two separate careful words.
• منطلع often sounds like mnitlaʿ with a very short vowel after m.

You do not need perfect pronunciation right away; the most important rhythm is:

iza ma ishtaġal il-maṣʿad / mnitlaʿ ʿaṭ-ṭābeʔ it-tēne ʿad-daraj