انا اقترحت نروح عالمطعم القريب، بس صديقتي رفضت لانه غالي.

In Levantine Arabic, the verb usually already shows the subject, so اقترحت by itself can mean I suggested.

Adding أنا is optional here. It can:

• make the sentence clearer,
• add slight emphasis,
• sound more natural in conversation in some contexts.

So both of these are possible:

• أنا اقترحت نروح...
• اقترحت نروح...

Both mean the same basic thing.

اقترحت is the past tense of to suggest.

Here it means I suggested.

The ending -ت is the marker for I in the past tense. So:

• اقترحت = I suggested
• اقترح = he suggested
• اقترحتْ = she suggested in pronunciation, though in normal writing it often looks the same as I suggested

This is why context is important in Arabic.

Here نروح literally means we go, but after اقترحت it naturally means that we go or for us to go.

So:

• اقترحت نروح = I suggested we go

In Levantine Arabic, you often do not need an extra word for that in this kind of sentence. English needs I suggested that we go, but Arabic can simply say I suggested we go with the verb directly after it.

Levantine Arabic often uses a normal present/imperfect verb after another verb, where English might use an infinitive like to go.

Arabic does not have a direct infinitive in the same way English does. So instead of saying something exactly like I suggested to go, Levantine says:

• اقترحت نروح = I suggested we go

The form نروح is the we form: we go.

عالمطعم means to the restaurant.

It is a very common spoken contraction:

• عَـ = a shortened colloquial form related to على
• المطعم = the restaurant

Together:

• عالمطعم = to the restaurant

In Levantine speech, this kind of joining is very common. You will often hear and see:

• عالبيت = to the house / home
• عالجامعة = to the university
• عالسوق = to the market

So نروح عالمطعم is a very natural colloquial way to say we go to the restaurant.

That is a very common learner question.

In formal Arabic, على often means on, but in Levantine colloquial speech, عَـ / على is also commonly used with verbs of movement to mean something like to a place.

So:

• نروح عالمطعم = we go to the restaurant

This is just a normal colloquial usage and is very common in everyday speech.

Because adjectives usually come after the noun in Arabic.

So:

• المطعم القريب = the nearby restaurant / the restaurant that is near

This is the normal order:

• noun first,
• adjective second.

Also, the adjective matches the noun in definiteness:

• المطعم = definite, the restaurant
• القريب = also definite, the nearby

If the noun is definite, the adjective is definite too.

القريب literally means the near or the close one, but in natural English we translate it as:

• nearby
• close
• the nearby restaurant

So المطعم القريب is literally the restaurant, the near one, but naturally it means the nearby restaurant.

Here بس means but.

It is extremely common in spoken Levantine Arabic. In conversation, بس is much more natural than formal لكن.

So:

• بس صديقتي رفضت = but my friend refused

You should learn بس as one of the most useful everyday connector words in Levantine.

صديقتي means my female friend.

It is made from:

• صديقة = female friend
• -ي = my

So:

• صديقتي = my female friend

If it were a male friend, it would be:

• صديقي = my male friend

The -ي ending is the common possessive ending for my.

Yes, exactly. In ordinary writing without vowel marks, رفضت can mean either:

• I refused
• she refused

The difference is in pronunciation and context.

Here, because the subject is صديقتي (my female friend), it means:

• صديقتي رفضت = my friend refused

So even though the spelling looks the same, the subject tells you how to understand it.

لانه means because it is or simply because in this sentence.

It is made of:

• لـ = because / for
• أنه in origin, though in colloquial spelling and speech it often appears more simply as لانه

So:

• رفضت لانه غالي = she refused because it’s expensive

In Levantine, you may also hear:

• لأنه
• لأنو depending on region and spelling style.

All are related to the same meaning.

Because غالي refers to المطعم (the restaurant), and مطعم is masculine.

So:

• المطعم... غالي = the restaurant is expensive

If the noun were feminine, the adjective would usually be feminine too. For example:

• المطاعم غالية = the restaurants are expensive
• الوجبة غالية = the meal is expensive

Here the thing being described as expensive is the restaurant, so masculine غالي is correct.

Grammatically, yes, غالي can describe a masculine noun or person, so by itself it could mean he is expensive or it is expensive.

But in this sentence, the context makes it clear that it refers to المطعم:

• the restaurant is expensive

Context is very important in Arabic, especially because pronouns are often implied rather than stated separately.

It is mostly natural colloquial Levantine, but it has a slight mix in feel depending on region and speaker.

Colloquial features include:

• نروح
• عالمطعم
• بس

A word like اقترحت is perfectly understandable and usable, but some speakers might choose other everyday ways to say it depending on context, such as expressions closer to I said we should go.

So the sentence is very believable as Levantine, especially in written colloquial Arabic.

A simple transliteration would be:

ana iqtara7t nrou7 3al-mat3am il-2areeb, bas sadee2ti rafadet la2anno ghali

Transliterations vary a lot, so you might also see:

• ana 2tara7t nroo7 3almat3am il-2areeb, bas sadii2ti refdet la2anno ghaali
• similar variants

The important parts to notice are:

• nrou7 / nroo7 = نروح
• 3al- = عالـ
• bas = بس
• ghali = غالي

Yes, very natural.

You can say:

• اقترحت نروح عالمطعم القريب، بس صديقتي رفضت لانه غالي.

This is completely normal because اقترحت already tells you the subject is I.

Including أنا just adds a bit of emphasis or explicitness.

Yes. For example, speakers might also say something like:

• أنا قلت نروح عالمطعم القريب، بس صديقتي ما وافقت لأنه غالي.
• اقترحت نروح عالمطعم القريب، بس صاحبتي رفضت لأنه غالي.

Some differences:

• قلت نروح = I said we should go
• ما وافقت = she didn’t agree
• صاحبتي can also mean my female friend in many dialects

So the original sentence is good, but everyday speech often allows several equally natural alternatives.