بعد ما اجت الكهربا، رجع الضو وصارت اللمبة تشتغل.

In Levantine, بعد ما means after when it introduces a clause.

So:

• بعد ما اجت الكهربا = after the electricity came back

This is a very common colloquial pattern:

• بعد ما وصل = after he arrived
• بعد ما خلّصت = after I finished

It is different from just بعد, which can also mean after but is often followed by a noun rather than a full verb clause.

Because الكهربا is treated as a feminine noun in Levantine, so the verb agrees with it.

• إجا = he came / it came (masculine)
• إجت / اجت = she came / it came (feminine)

Since الكهربا is feminine:

• اجت الكهربا = the electricity came

This is very natural in spoken Levantine.

Yes, الكهربا is feminine in Levantine Arabic.

That means it takes:

• feminine verb forms
• feminine pronouns
• feminine adjective agreement when relevant

So you get:

• اجت الكهربا = the electricity came
• قطعت الكهربا = the electricity went out

This is one of those nouns you simply learn with its grammatical gender.

Here, الكهربا means the electricity / the power supply.

In everyday Levantine, people often use الكهربا to talk about electrical power in the house or neighborhood, especially in contexts like outages:

• قطعت الكهربا = the power went out
• اجت الكهربا = the power came back

So even though the basic meaning is electricity, in real-life usage it often corresponds to English power.

Literally, رجع الضو means the light returned.

In natural English, that often corresponds to:

• the lights came back
• the power came back
• the light came back on

In Levantine, الضو can refer to light in a very everyday, practical sense, especially household lighting. So after the electricity returns, it is natural to say:

• رجع الضو = the light came back

It is a very idiomatic, spoken way to describe power returning.

They are related, but not identical.

• الكهربا = the electricity / power supply
• الضو = the light

So the sentence describes a sequence:

1. اجت الكهربا = the electricity came back
2. رجع الضو = the light returned
3. صارت اللمبة تشتغل = the bulb/lamp started working

This sounds very natural because it moves from the cause to the visible result.

Here صارت does not simply mean became in the basic sense. In Levantine, صار / صارت + imperfect verb often means:

• started to
• came to
• ended up
• began to

So:

• صارت اللمبة تشتغل = the light bulb started working / came on

This is a very common construction in spoken Arabic.

Examples:

• صار يبكي = he started crying
• صارت تحكي = she started talking

Because after صار / صارت, Levantine often uses the imperfect to describe what began happening.

So:

• صارت تشتغل literally = it became working
• natural English = it started working

This is normal Arabic grammar, not a tense mistake.

The timeline is still in the past because صارت is in the past:

• صارت اللمبة تشتغل = the bulb started to work

Because اللمبة is feminine.

• يشتغل = he/it works (masculine)
• تشتغل = she/it works (feminine)

Since اللمبة is feminine, the verb must agree:

• اللمبة تشتغل = the bulb works / is working

This is the same kind of agreement you saw with الكهربا and اجت.

In Levantine, اللمبة usually means the bulb or the light bulb, though in some contexts English speakers may translate it more loosely as lamp or light.

In this sentence, light bulb is probably the best match, because:

• رجع الضو = the light came back
• صارت اللمبة تشتغل = the bulb started working

So it refers to the actual light fixture or bulb turning on again.

Because Arabic often allows or prefers verb-first word order, especially in narration.

So these are very natural:

• رجع الضو
• صارت اللمبة تشتغل

You could also hear noun-first versions in some contexts, but the verb-first order here sounds very normal and smooth in spoken Levantine.

It gives the sentence a sense of action unfolding:

• the electricity came back
• the light returned
• the bulb started working

Yes, they are related, but اجت is the Levantine colloquial form, while جاءت is Standard Arabic.

Compare:

• Levantine: اجت الكهربا
• Standard Arabic: جاءت الكهرباء

A learner should think of اجا / اجت as the everyday spoken Levantine verb for to come.

Not very naturally.

A word-for-word rendering would sound something like:

• after the electricity came, the light returned, and the bulb started working

That is understandable, but a more natural English translation would usually be something like:

• After the power came back, the lights came back on and the bulb started working again.

So the Arabic uses very everyday Levantine expressions that do not always map neatly onto English word-for-word.

It is clearly Levantine-style colloquial Arabic, especially because of forms like:

• اجت
• الكهربا
• الضو
• صارت ... تشتغل

Speakers from other Arabic-speaking regions would probably understand most or all of it, especially from context, but the phrasing is distinctly Levantine rather than Standard Arabic.