دق جرس الباب وقت كنا عم ناكل، وطلعت اختي تشوف مين اجا.

Arabic often allows verb-first word order. In دق جرس الباب, the verb دق comes first, and the subject جرس الباب comes after it.

So the structure is:

• دق = rang
• جرس الباب = the doorbell

This is completely normal in Levantine and in Arabic generally. English usually prefers the doorbell rang, but Arabic often says the equivalent of rang the doorbell.

Most naturally, it means the doorbell rang.

However, in everyday speech, this kind of expression can sometimes feel a little flexible, because the important idea is that the bell sounded. If you want to clearly say someone rang the doorbell, you could say something like حدا دق الجرس.

So in this sentence, the best understanding is simply the doorbell rang.

جرس الباب is an idafa structure, often called a construct phrase. It literally means bell of the door, which is how Arabic says the doorbell.

In an idafa:

• the first noun usually does not take ال
• the whole phrase can still be definite because the second noun is definite

So:

• جرس = bell
• الباب = the door
• جرس الباب = the doorbell

That is why ال only appears on الباب, not on جرس.

Here وقت means when or at the time that.

So وقت كنا عم ناكل means when we were eating.

In Levantine, وقت is very common in speech for time clauses. Another common word you may hear is لما, which can often work in a similar way.

This is the Levantine way to express a past continuous / past progressive action.

Breakdown:

• كنا = we were
• عم = marks an ongoing action
• ناكل = we eat / we are eating

So:

• عم ناكل = we are eating
• كنا عم ناكل = we were eating

This shows that the eating was already in progress when the doorbell rang.

عم is a very common Levantine marker for an action that is in progress.

Examples:

• باكل = I eat / I am eating, depending on context
• عم باكل = I am eating right now

So عم makes the ongoing meaning clearer. When you combine it with كان in the past, you get:

• كنت عم باكل = I was eating
• كنا عم ناكل = we were eating

In informal Levantine writing, the hamza is often simplified or omitted. So ناكل is a very normal colloquial spelling.

A more careful spelling might be نأكل, but in everyday chat-style writing, people often write:

• ناكل
• اجا
• اختي

instead of more careful spellings with hamza.

So this is mostly a matter of informal spelling, not a different grammar point.

Yes. طلعت is the feminine singular past form, and it matches أختي = my sister.

Compare:

• طلع أخي = my brother went/got up
• طلعت أختي = my sister went/got up

In the past tense, Arabic verbs usually agree with the subject in gender.

Literally, طلع often has meanings like go up, come up, go out, or get up. But in everyday Levantine, it is used quite flexibly.

In this sentence, طلعت اختي تشوف does not need to mean she physically went upstairs. It more naturally means something like:

• my sister got up to see
• my sister went to see

So here طلعت is best understood from the situation, not from the most literal dictionary meaning.

Arabic does not use an infinitive in the same way English does. English says to see, but Levantine usually uses a normal conjugated verb instead.

So:

• طلعت تشوف = she went/got up to see

Literally, it is more like she got up, she sees, but in natural English we translate it as she went to see.

This is very common after verbs of movement or intention.

Yes, literally مين اجا means who came or who arrived.

But at the door, this is a very natural Levantine way to say:

• who it was
• who was there
• who had come to the door

So تشوف مين اجا is idiomatic. It does not sound strange to native speakers, even though English would more often say see who it was.

All of these are common spellings in informal Levantine writing:

• اجا
• إجا
• أجا

They all represent the same verb: he came.

Colloquial Arabic spelling is much less standardized than Modern Standard Arabic, so you will often see variation like this in texting, subtitles, or social media.

In careful spelling, yes, أختي is more standard-looking.

But in informal Levantine writing, people often drop hamzas and write:

• اختي instead of أختي
• اجا instead of إجا / أجا

So اختي is very common and completely understandable in casual writing. It is not a different word; it is just a less formal spelling.