بعد العشا رميت الزبالة ومسحت الطاولة.

A rough Levantine pronunciation is:

baʿd il-ʿasha, rameit iz-zbāle w masaḥt iṭ-ṭāwle

A few notes:

• بعد = baʿd
• العشا = il-ʿasha
• الزبالة is often pronounced iz-zbāle / ez-zbāle because ز is a sun letter, so the l of ال blends into the next consonant.
• الطاولة is often pronounced iṭ-ṭāwle / eṭ-ṭāwle for the same reason, since ط is also a sun letter.
• و is just w and attaches to the next word.

Exact pronunciation varies a bit by country and speaker, so you may also hear slightly different vowels.

It means after dinner or after supper.

• بعد = after
• العشا = dinner / supper

In Levantine, العشا is the normal everyday word for the evening meal. Putting بعد العشا at the beginning sets the time frame for everything that follows.

العشا is the common colloquial Levantine form, while العشاء is the more formal / MSA form.

So:

• العشا = everyday spoken Levantine
• العشاء = Modern Standard Arabic / more formal

A native speaker in daily conversation would very naturally say العشا.

Because Arabic verbs already show the subject.

Both رميت and مسحت are first-person singular past forms, so the I is built into the verb:

• رميت = I threw
• مسحت = I wiped / cleaned

So Arabic does not need a separate word for I here unless the speaker wants extra emphasis.

They are both in the past tense.

• رميت = I threw
• مسحت = I wiped

This makes the whole sentence a sequence of completed actions in the past: first the time reference (after dinner), then two actions the speaker did.

No. In the first-person singular past, the form is the same for both men and women.

So both a male speaker and a female speaker would say:

• رميت
• مسحت

Gender matters in many Arabic verb forms, but not here.

Because it comes from a verb with a weak final letter: رمى / يرمي = to throw.

When this kind of verb is conjugated, the form can look a bit less straightforward than a regular verb. In this sentence:

• رميت = I threw

So even if the dictionary form is رمى, the past I form becomes رميت.

This is very common with weak verbs in Arabic, so it is worth getting used to.

Because و meaning and is written as a prefix in Arabic.

So:

• ومسحت = and I wiped

This is completely normal. Arabic often attaches short function words directly to the next word, including:

• و = and
• ب = with / in
• ل = for / to
• ال = the

Because Arabic often uses the in places where English also uses the, or where English might be slightly looser.

Here the speaker is talking about specific, understood household things:

• الزبالة = the trash / the garbage
• الطاولة = the table

In context, this sounds very natural. It is like saying I threw out the trash and wiped the table.

Also, as pronunciation:

• الزبالة is said roughly iz-zbāle / ez-zbāle
• الطاولة is said roughly iṭ-ṭāwle / eṭ-ṭāwle

because of sun-letter assimilation.

Literally, مسحت most directly means wiped.

So:

• مسحت الطاولة = I wiped the table

In natural English translation, that can sometimes come out as I cleaned the table, depending on context. But the core idea is specifically wiping the surface, not doing a deep cleaning.

Yes. زبالة is a very common everyday Levantine word for trash / garbage.

So:

• رميت الزبالة = I threw away the trash

In more formal Arabic, you are more likely to see words like:

• القمامة
• النفايات

But in spoken Levantine, الزبالة is very natural.

It is mainly Levantine-style everyday speech, especially because of words like العشا and الزبالة.

A more MSA-style version would be something like:

بعد العشاء رميت القمامة ومسحت الطاولة

That said, parts of the grammar are not wildly different, so a learner may notice overlap. The main thing that makes the original sentence feel colloquial is the vocabulary and spoken style.

Putting بعد العشا first is very natural because it sets the scene right away:

After dinner, I threw away the trash and wiped the table.

Yes, you could move it, but the emphasis changes a little. Beginning with the time phrase is common when the speaker wants to frame the whole event by time.

It also sounds very natural in storytelling and everyday conversation.