لما وصل عالبيت، اخي جاب كاسة مي من التلاجة.

Here لما means when and introduces a time clause: when he arrived home...

In Levantine, لما is very common in everyday speech. It often does the job that عندما does in more formal or Standard Arabic. So:

لما وصل... = when he arrived...

It is one of the most natural colloquial ways to set up a past event in a story.

The verb وصل is past tense, masculine singular: he arrived.

Arabic often leaves the subject pronoun unstated when the verb already shows it. So here there is an understood هو built into the verb.

That means وصل by itself can mean he arrived.

Who exactly he refers to depends on context. It could be my brother, or it could be someone already mentioned before this sentence.

In Levantine, عالبيت is a very natural colloquial way to say to the house / home.

عالبيت is a contraction of على البيت:

• على = on / to
• البيت = the house, the home

When على comes before الـ, it often becomes عالـ in speech and informal writing.

So:

• على البيت → عالبيت

In Standard Arabic, you might expect وصل إلى البيت, but in Levantine وصل عالبيت is very common and natural.

Arabic often uses the definite form where English uses a bare word like home.

So عالبيت is literally to the house, but in context it naturally means home.

This is very normal in Arabic. The presence of الـ does not always mean you should translate it with the in English.

This is a normal colloquial word order in Levantine.

اخي جاب = my brother brought

Levantine often uses subject + verb very naturally, especially in storytelling and conversation. So after the opening time clause, the speaker introduces the main subject clearly:

لما وصل عالبيت، اخي جاب...

You could also hear verb-first patterns in Arabic, but اخي جاب is completely natural and easy to understand.

اخي means my brother.

In more careful spelling, especially in Standard Arabic, you would usually write أخي. In casual Levantine writing, people often simplify spelling and may leave out the hamza, so اخي is very common online and in messages.

A few important points:

• أخ = brother
• أخي / اخي = my brother

In spoken Levantine, pronunciation can vary by region, and some speakers may use forms like أخوي instead. But in this sentence, اخي is simply my brother.

جاب is the past tense of a very common Levantine verb meaning brought or got/fetched.

So depending on context, جاب كاسة مي can mean:

• brought a glass of water
• got a glass of water

In everyday speech, جاب is extremely common and much more natural colloquially than more formal verbs such as أحضر.

كاسة مي literally looks like glass water, but it means a glass of water.

Arabic often expresses this kind of idea by placing two nouns next to each other:

• كاسة مي = a glass of water
• فنجان قهوة = a cup of coffee
• صحن رز = a plate of rice

So there is no separate word corresponding to English of here. The relationship is shown just by the noun combination itself.

In Levantine Arabic, indefiniteness is usually shown simply by the absence of الـ.

So:

• كاسة = a glass / one glass
• الكاسة = the glass

There is no separate everyday word that works exactly like English a in this sentence.

Also, colloquial Levantine does not normally use the Standard Arabic case endings or tanween that learners may have seen in formal grammar. So just كاسة naturally means a glass here.

Because this is Levantine colloquial Arabic, not Standard Arabic.

In Levantine:

• مي is the everyday word for water
• تلاجة / التلاجة is the everyday pronunciation and spelling for fridge

Compared with Standard Arabic:

• ماء is formal/standard for water
• الثلاجة is the standard form for the refrigerator

A common Levantine sound change is that ث is often pronounced as ت, so ثلاجة becomes تلاجة in everyday speech.

من التلاجة means from the fridge and tells you the source of the water.

So the action is not just that he brought water, but that he got it from the fridge.

Breaking it down:

• من = from
• التلاجة = the fridge

This kind of phrase is very common after verbs like جاب to show where something was brought from.

A natural broad transliteration would be:

lamma wosal ʿal-bēt, akhī jēb kāset mayy men et-tallāje

A few pronunciation notes:

• لما → lamma
• وصل → wosal or sometimes close to weṣel, depending on region
• عالبيت → ʿal-bēt
• اخي → akhī
• جاب → often jēb in many Levantine varieties
• كاسة → kāse or kāset before the next word in connected speech
• مي → mayy / مي
• التلاجة → et-tallāje

Exact pronunciation varies across Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Palestine, but this gives you a good Levantine reading.