مع انه نهاية الفيلم ما عجبتني، حبيت الموسيقى تبعه.

It means although / even though.

In Levantine, you’ll very often hear it as مع إنو in pronunciation and informal writing. It introduces a contrast:

• مع انه... = even though...
• although...

So the sentence starts with a concessive idea: even though the ending didn’t appeal to me...

Because this is an idafa structure, the Arabic way of saying the ending of the movie.

• نهاية = ending
• الفيلم = the movie

In an idafa:

• the first noun usually does not take ال
• the second noun can be definite

So:

• نهاية الفيلم = the movie’s ending / the ending of the movie

Not:

• النهاية الفيلم ❌

This is very common in Arabic:

• باب البيت = the door of the house
• اسم البنت = the girl’s name

Because the thing doing the action grammatically is نهاية, and نهاية is a feminine singular noun.

Arabic عجب works differently from English like. The structure is closer to:

• The ending pleased me
• literally: the ending liked-me / was pleasing to me

So:

• عجبتني = it pleased me
• the ت marks feminine singular agreement
• that feminine agreement matches نهاية

That’s why you get:

• نهاية الفيلم ما عجبتني = the ending of the movie didn’t please me / I didn’t like the ending

-ني means me.

So:

• عجبت = she/it (feminine) pleased
• عجبتني = she/it pleased me

This suffix is very common:

• شافني = he saw me
• سمعتني = you heard me
• حكالي = he told me

In this sentence, -ني tells you who had the reaction: me.

Because in Levantine, ما is a very common way to negate past-tense verbs.

So:

• عجبتني = it pleased me
• ما عجبتني = it didn’t please me

This is standard colloquial Levantine usage:

• ما فهمت = I didn’t understand
• ما شفته = I didn’t see him
• ما حبيت = I didn’t like

Unlike Egyptian Arabic, Levantine usually does not add a final -ش.

It can mean either, depending on context.

In Levantine:

• حبيت can mean I liked
• or I loved

Here, because the object is the music, the natural meaning is I liked the music.

So context decides the strength:

• حبيت الفيلم = I liked/loved the movie
• حبيتك = I loved you / I fell for you

In everyday speech, حبيت is often used where English would simply say liked.

Because Arabic often drops subject pronouns when the verb already shows who the subject is.

• حبيت already means I liked
• the -ت ending tells you it is I

So أنا is optional:

• حبيت الموسيقى تبعه = I liked its music
• أنا حبيت الموسيقى تبعه = I liked its music

Adding أنا gives extra emphasis, but it isn’t necessary.

تبعه means his / its / belonging to it, depending on context.

Here it refers to الفيلم, which is masculine, so:

• الموسيقى تبعه = its music / the music belonging to it

In Levantine, تبع is a very common colloquial possessive word meaning something like:

• of
• belonging to
• one’s

Examples:

• الكتاب تبعي = my book
• السيارة تبعها = her car
• البيت تبعهم = their house

So here, تبعه points back to the movie.

Because تبع-based possession is extremely common in spoken Levantine.

Both ideas are possible, but they feel different:

• موسيقته = its/his music
  This is more compact and can sound more formal or less colloquial.
• الموسيقى تبعه = its music / the music of it
  This feels very natural in everyday Levantine speech.

So a learner should recognize that noun + تبع + pronoun is one of the most common colloquial possession patterns.

It refers to الفيلم.

The meaning is:

• the music of the movie

So:

• الموسيقى = the possessed thing
• تبعه = belonging to it
• it = the movie

This can feel a little backward to English speakers at first, but it is very normal in Arabic.

A very literal breakdown would be:

• مع انه = even though
• نهاية الفيلم = the ending of the movie
• ما عجبتني = didn’t please me
• حبيت = I liked
• الموسيقى تبعه = its music / the music belonging to it

So the inner logic is closer to:

Even though the ending of the movie didn’t please me, I liked its music.

This is useful because it shows two important Arabic patterns:

1. عجب = something pleases someone
2. تبع = colloquial possession

A common Levantine-style pronunciation would be something like:

maʿ enno nihāyet il-film ma ʿajabitni, ḥabbēt il-mūsīʔa tabaʿo

A few notes:

• مع انه is often said as مع إنو / maʿ enno
• الفيلم is often pronounced il-film
• عجبتني may sound like ʿajabitni
• تبعه is often pronounced tabaʿo

Exact pronunciation varies by country and city, but that version is very natural for much of the Levant.

Yes, definitely. A few natural alternatives are:

• مع إنه نهاية الفيلم ما عجبتني، حبيت الموسيقى تبعو.
• رغم إنه نهاية الفيلم ما عجبتني، حبيت موسيقته.
• مع إنه ما حبيت نهاية الفيلم، حبيت الموسيقى تبعو.

These all express basically the same idea.

The version you gave is already natural, especially if you read:

• انه as إنه / إنو
• تبعه as a colloquial possessive

So the main thing to learn is not just this exact sentence, but the patterns behind it.