ما اخدت القميص لانه الخصم كان صغير، والسعر بعده غالي.

In Levantine Arabic, ما is a very common way to negate a past verb.

• اخدت = I took / I got / I bought
• ما اخدت = I didn’t take / I didn’t get / I didn’t buy

So ما اخدت القميص means I didn’t take/buy the shirt.

This is different from Standard Arabic, where you might learn something like لم آخذ. In everyday Levantine speech, ما + past verb is the normal pattern.

Literally, اخدت comes from the verb أخذ / ياخد, meaning to take.

But in shopping contexts, take often naturally means:

• buy
• get
• take home

So in this sentence, اخدت القميص is best understood as I bought the shirt or I took the shirt.

Also, the ending -ت already shows the subject is I, so you do not need to say أنا unless you want emphasis.

Because Arabic verbs already include the subject.

In اخدت, the final -ت tells you the speaker is I in the past tense.

So:

• اخدت = I took
• أخد = he took
• أخدتِ or أخدتي in speech = you took (to a woman), depending on spelling/style

That means أنا اخدت is possible, but أنا is optional. Speakers usually leave it out unless they want contrast or emphasis.

لأنه means because.

It introduces the reason:

• ما اخدت القميص = I didn’t buy the shirt
• لأنه الخصم كان صغير = because the discount was small

In Levantine pronunciation, لأنه is often said something like la’anno.

So the structure is simply:

• statement
• لأنه
  • reason

Yes, الخصم can mean different things depending on context.

Common meanings include:

• opponent / rival
• discount

In a shopping sentence with shirt and price, it clearly means discount.

So here:

• الخصم كان صغير = the discount was small

This is a good example of why context matters a lot in Arabic vocabulary.

Because Arabic commonly describes a discount by its size or amount.

So:

• خصم كبير = a big discount
• خصم صغير = a small discount

In English, we might also say:

• the discount was too small
• the discount wasn’t much

Grammatically, كان means was, and صغير agrees with الخصم, which is masculine singular.

Here بعده means still.

So:

• السعر غالي = the price is expensive
• السعر بعده غالي = the price is still expensive

This is a very common Levantine pattern:

• بعده = still, for a masculine singular thing
• literally something like it is still

Since السعر is masculine, بعده is the form used here.

You may also see or hear related forms like:

• بعدها = still, for feminine
• بعدهم = still, for plural

Because in Arabic, the present-tense verb to be is usually not said.

So in the present, Arabic often works like this:

• السعر غالي = the price is expensive
• literally: the price expensive

That is normal Arabic grammar.

But in the past, you do need كان:

• السعر كان غالي = the price was expensive

So this sentence has:

• كان in the past clause: الخصم كان صغير
• no is in the present clause: السعر بعده غالي

In Levantine Arabic, غالي is very commonly used to mean expensive.

It can describe:

• an item: القميص غالي = the shirt is expensive
• a price: السعر غالي = the price is expensive / high

So even though English often says the price is high, Arabic naturally says the price is expensive with غالي.

That is a normal and idiomatic way to say it.

Yes: the sentence is very natural spoken Levantine word order.

It goes like this:

• ما اخدت القميص
• لأنه الخصم كان صغير
• والسعر بعده غالي

That is:

1. main statement
2. reason 1
3. reason 2

This feels very natural in conversation. Arabic does not have to follow English word order exactly. What matters is that the parts connect clearly.

Also, the و before السعر simply means and, adding a second reason:

• the discount was small
• and the price was still expensive

A common Levantine-style pronunciation could be something like:

ma akhadt il-qamīs la’anno l-khasem kān zghīr, w-is-si‘er ba‘do ghāli

A few notes:

• القميص may sound like il-qamīs or, in some accents, with a lighter or glottalized first consonant
• لأنه is often pronounced la’anno
• السعر is often pronounced close to si‘er
• بعده here sounds like ba‘do
• غالي = ghāli

Exact pronunciation varies by country, city, and speaker, but this gives you a good Levantine feel.