انا كمان اشتريت رواية جديدة، بس لسه ما بلشت اقراها.

A natural breakdown is:

• انا = I
• كمان = also / too
• اشتريت = bought
• رواية = a novel
• جديدة = new
• بس = but
• لسه = still / yet
• ما = not
• بلشت = started
• اقراها = read it

So literally, it is something like:

I also bought a new novel, but I still haven’t started reading it.

Notice that the second half is not translated word-for-word into English. In Levantine, لسه ما بلشت اقراها literally feels more like I still didn’t start reading it, but in natural English the best meaning is I haven’t started reading it yet.

Yes, the verb already tells you the subject is I, so انا is not strictly necessary.

You could simply say:

كمان اشتريت رواية جديدة...

But adding انا can do a few things:

• make the subject clearer
• add emphasis
• contrast with someone else
• avoid confusion, because اشتريت can also match you (masculine singular) bought in speech/context

So انا كمان اشتريت has the feeling of:

I also bought...

with a little extra clarity or emphasis.

كمان usually means:

• also
• too
• as well

In this sentence, انا كمان اشتريت... means:

I also bought...
or
I bought one too.

It is a very common everyday Levantine word.

Depending on context, كمان can sometimes also mean more / additional, but here it clearly means also.

اشتريت is the past tense of اشترى = to buy.

Here it means:

I bought

A useful detail: in Levantine, the I form in the past often ends in -ت. So:

• اشتريت = I bought

Also, this form does not change for a male vs. female speaker. A man and a woman both say:

أنا اشتريت

In everyday Levantine, you may also hear a shorter colloquial form like شريت instead of اشتريت, depending on region and speaker.

Because in Arabic, adjectives normally come after the noun.

So:

• رواية = novel
• جديدة = new

Together:

• رواية جديدة = a new novel

Also, the adjective has to agree with the noun. Since رواية is feminine singular, the adjective is also feminine singular:

• رواية جديدة

If the noun were masculine, the adjective would be masculine too.

Because رواية is a grammatically feminine noun.

That is why:

• the adjective is جديدة and not جديد
• the pronoun later is ها = it (feminine)

So in this sentence, the grammar is consistent all the way through:

• رواية جديدة
• اقراها = read it (referring to the feminine noun رواية)

This is grammatical gender, not biological gender.

Here, بس means but.

So:

• اشتريت رواية جديدة، بس... = I bought a new novel, but...

Very common Levantine uses of بس include:

• but
• only / just
• sometimes enough, depending on context

But in this sentence, it is definitely the conjunction but.

This is a very common Levantine pattern.

• لسه = still / yet
• ما = not
• بلشت = I started

So لسه ما بلشت literally feels like:

I still didn’t start

But in natural English, that becomes:

I haven’t started yet

or

I still haven’t started

So لسه with negation often gives the meaning of not yet.

Examples:

• لسه ما أكلت = I haven’t eaten yet
• لسه ما وصلت = I haven’t arrived yet

Because the idea is about whether the action of starting has happened or not.

In Levantine, it is very normal to use the past tense with negation for this kind of meaning:

• ما بلشت = I didn’t start / I haven’t started

And when you add لسه, it becomes clearly:

• لسه ما بلشت = I still haven’t started yet

So even though English uses haven’t started, Levantine commonly uses a negative past form here.

This is very natural and common.

Because after a verb like بلش = start/begin, Levantine often uses the following verb in a more bare, infinitive-like way.

So:

• بلشت اقراها = I started reading it

not usually:

• بلشت باقراها

The بـ prefix in Levantine often marks a normal present/habitual verb, like:

• بقرأ = I read / I am reading

But after بلش, that prefix is often left out:

• بلش + imperfect verb
• بلشت اقراها

That is why the sentence sounds natural as written.

ها is an attached object pronoun meaning it, and here it refers to رواية.

So:

• اقرا = read
• اقراها = read it

Because رواية is feminine, the pronoun is feminine too.

So the full idea is:

I haven’t started reading it yet

with it = the novel.

Yes, this kind of spelling is very normal in informal Levantine writing.

In more careful spelling, you may see something like:

• أقراها

But in casual text, people often simplify spelling and omit some hamza details, so:

• اقراها

is extremely common.

This is one of the things learners notice a lot in dialect writing: people often write in a practical, speech-based way rather than following strict formal spelling rules.

That depends on the speaker and region.

In Levantine, ق can be pronounced in different ways, often as:

• a glottal stop ء in many urban accents
• q in some rural, Druze, or more conservative pronunciations
• sometimes other regional variants

So اقراها may sound closer to:

• ’raha / ’qraha / aqraha, depending on accent

You do not need to worry too much at first. What matters most is recognizing that this word means read it.

Yes, but the feeling changes a bit.

• بلشت is very common, everyday Levantine
• بدأت sounds more formal or closer to Standard Arabic

So in casual spoken Levantine, بلشت is the more natural choice here.

Similarly, there are regional alternatives for لسه, such as:

• لساتني
• بعدني

depending on dialect and speaker.

But the original sentence:

انا كمان اشتريت رواية جديدة، بس لسه ما بلشت اقراها.

is a very natural Levantine sentence.