وصلنا عالملعب قبل المباراة بساعة.

وصلنا is the past-tense verb وصل plus the ending -نا.

• وصل = arrived / reached
• -نا = we

So وصلنا means we arrived or we reached.

A key point for English speakers: Arabic often builds the subject into the verb, so you do not need a separate word for we unless you want emphasis.

It is very understandable, but عالملعب gives it a clearly colloquial/Levantine feel.

A more formal/MSA version would usually be:

وصلنا إلى الملعب قبل المباراة بساعة

So the main Levantine feature here is the use of عَ / على instead of إلى in this kind of sentence.

In Levantine, speakers often use عَ or على after verbs like وصل where English would use to or at.

So:

• عالملعب = عَ + الملعب
• idiomatically: to the stadium / at the stadium

Do not translate it too literally as on the stadium. In dialect, this preposition often covers meanings that English splits into to, at, and sometimes on.

A rough pronunciation is ʕal-malʕab.

A few tips:

• ع is a deep throat sound that English does not have.
• If you cannot pronounce it perfectly yet, a simple vowel-like sound will usually still be understood.
• الملعب begins with م, and م is a moon letter, so the ل in ال is pronounced.

So the word group sounds roughly like ʕal-malʕab, not something with the l disappearing.

ملعب is a general word for a place where sports are played. Depending on context, it can mean:

• field
• pitch
• court
• stadium
• playground

So stadium is a good translation here, but the Arabic word itself is broader than that.

قبل means before, and here it works as a preposition.

• قبل المباراة = before the match

The noun المباراة is definite because the speaker means a specific match/game already known in context.

Compare:

• قبل المباراة = before the match
• قبل مباراة = before a match

After قبل and بعد, Levantine very often uses بـ + amount of time to show the time gap.

So:

• قبل المباراة بساعة

literally feels like:

• before the match by an hour

but in natural English it means:

• an hour before the match

This is a very useful pattern. For example:

• قبل الدرس بعشر دقايق = ten minutes before the lesson
• بعد الشغل بنص ساعة = half an hour after work

Yes, absolutely.

Both are correct:

• قبل المباراة بساعة
• قبل ساعة من المباراة

They mean basically the same thing, but they organize the sentence differently:

• قبل المباراة بساعة = start from the event, then give the time difference
• قبل ساعة من المباراة = start from the time difference, then mention the event

The original version sounds especially natural in spoken Levantine.

Because verb-first order is very common in Arabic, especially in simple past-tense statements.

So وصلنا عالملعب... is completely natural.

You could also say:

• نحنا وصلنا عالملعب...

But adding نحنا is optional, because -نا in وصلنا already tells you the subject is we. Adding نحنا usually adds emphasis or contrast.

In normal speech, final ة is usually pronounced like a final a/e sound, not a clear t.

So:

• المباراة ends like -a / -ah
• ساعة sounds like sāʿa

The t sound tends to appear in more formal pronunciation or when the word is grammatically linked to something after it.

Yes. A very useful Levantine pattern is:

وصلنا/وصلت/وصلوا + عَـ[place] + قبل/بعد [event] + بـ[time amount]

Examples:

• وصلت عالجامعة قبل المحاضرة بربع ساعة
  = I arrived at the university a quarter of an hour before the lecture.

• وصلوا عالبيت بعد العشا بنص ساعة
  = They got home half an hour after dinner.

• وصلنا عالمطار قبل الرحلة بساعتين
  = We arrived at the airport two hours before the flight.