اخي عم يركض بالنادي هلا.

It means my brother.

The base noun is أخ / اخ = brother.
When you add -ي, it becomes أخي / اخي = my brother.

So:

• أخ = brother
• أخي = my brother

Because it already has a possessive ending, it is definite by itself, so you do not add ال.

In casual Levantine writing, people often leave out the hamza in spelling, especially in texting or informal writing.

So:

• أخي = more careful/formal spelling
• اخي = very common informal spelling

They mean the same thing here.

عم is a very common Levantine marker for an action that is happening right now or is in progress.

So:

• عم يركض = is running

This is one of the clearest signs that the sentence is colloquial Levantine, not Modern Standard Arabic.

Because the verb already shows that the subject is he.

يركض is a 3rd person masculine singular form, so it already means he runs / he is running depending context.

Since the sentence already has اخي = my brother, adding هو would usually be unnecessary.

So the sentence works naturally as:

• اخي عم يركض... = My brother is running...

Because بـ is a preposition that attaches directly to the following word.

Here:

• بـ = in / at
• النادي = the club / the gym

So:

• بالنادي = in the club / at the club / at the gym

In Arabic writing, short prepositions like بـ are commonly attached to the noun.

Usually you would pronounce it more like bin-naadi.

That is because ن is a sun letter, so the ل of ال is not pronounced clearly here. Instead, the ن gets doubled.

So although it is written:

• بالنادي

it is commonly pronounced something like:

• bin-naadi

This is a normal Arabic pronunciation rule.

Literally, النادي means the club.

But in real usage, depending on context, it can refer to:

• a sports club
• a social club
• a gym/fitness club

In this sentence, since someone is running there, English might naturally translate it as either:

• at the club
• at the gym

depending on the situation.

Here, هلا means now or right now.

In Levantine, هلا can be a time word, and that is exactly what it is doing in this sentence.

So:

• هلا = now / right now

You may also see related forms like هلق or هلّق, depending on region and spelling habits.

Because word order with time expressions is flexible in Levantine Arabic.

Putting هلا at the end is very natural and often sounds like:

• My brother is running at the club now

Arabic often allows this kind of movement more freely than English.
So this sentence order is completely normal:

• اخي عم يركض بالنادي هلا

Yes, very much so.

A few clues:

• عم for the progressive = very Levantine
• هلا = colloquial Levantine word for now
• informal spelling like اخي
• no case endings, which is normal in speech

A more Modern Standard Arabic version would look different, for example:

• أخي يركض الآن في النادي
• or أخي يجري الآن في النادي

So the original sentence sounds like spoken Levantine Arabic.

Yes. ركض / يركض is a common colloquial Levantine verb for to run.

Learners may also know جرى / يجري, which is more associated with Modern Standard Arabic, though people may still understand or use related forms depending on dialect and context.

So in Levantine, عم يركض is a very natural everyday way to say is running.

A simple learner-friendly pronunciation guide would be:

akhi 3am yirkod bin-naadi halla

A few notes:

• kh in akhi is the rough sound heard in Scottish loch or German Bach
• 3 stands for the Arabic letter ع
• bin-naadi reflects the natural pronunciation of بالنادي
• halla here means now

Exact pronunciation varies a bit across Levantine regions, but this is a good practical approximation.