بعد المطر، الارض لسه مبلولة.

A common Levantine pronunciation is:

baʿd il-maṭar, il-arḍ lissa mablūle

A few notes:

• بعد = baʿd. The ʿ stands for the Arabic letter ع, a sound English doesn’t have.
• المطر = il-maṭar or el-maṭar, depending on the speaker.
• الارض = il-arḍ / el-arḍ.
• لسه = lissa or lissā.
• مبلولة = mablūle in Levantine pronunciation. In more formal Arabic, it would be mablūla or muballala depending on the exact form being used.

Regional accents vary, so you may hear slightly different vowels.

Because in Arabic, especially in the present tense, the verb to be is usually left out.

So:

• الارض لسه مبلولة literally looks like:
• the ground still wet

But it means:

• the ground is still wet

This is completely normal in Arabic. If you wanted a past meaning, then a form of كان might appear, but for present meaning, no is is needed.

لسه is a very common Levantine word meaning still.

In this sentence:

• الارض لسه مبلولة = The ground is still wet

Depending on context, لسه can also relate to yet in English:

• لسه ما إجا = He hasn’t come yet
• لسه عم بدرس = I’m still studying

So here, لسه tells you that the wetness continues after the rain.

Because it agrees with الارض.

In Arabic, adjectives must agree with the noun in:

• gender
• number
• definiteness

ارض / أرض meaning ground / earth / land is feminine, so the adjective also has to be feminine:

• أرض مبلولة = wet ground

That is why you get مبلولة and not a masculine form.

مبلولة means wet, soaked, or damp, depending on context.

It comes from the root ب ل ل, which has to do with wetness or moisture.

So:

• مبلول = wet, soaked masculine
• مبلولة = wet, soaked feminine

In this sentence, مبلولة is describing the ground as being wet from the rain.

بعد المطر means after the rain.

Arabic often starts a sentence with a time phrase or context phrase, just like English can:

• After the rain, the ground is still wet.

So the structure is:

• بعد المطر = after the rain
• الارض لسه مبلولة = the ground is still wet

It sets the scene first, then gives the main statement.

Because both nouns are definite in this sentence.

• المطر = the rain
• الارض = the ground

The prefix ال is the Arabic definite article, equivalent to the in English.

So:

• مطر = rain
• المطر = the rain

and

• ارض / أرض = ground, earth
• الارض / الأرض = the ground, the earth

In more careful or formal spelling, it is usually written:

الأرض

with a hamza on the alif.

But in casual writing, many people simplify and write:

الارض

So for a learner:

• الأرض = more standard spelling
• الارض = very common informal spelling online and in texting

Both refer to the same word.

Because in Arabic, adjectives normally come after the noun they describe.

So:

• الارض مبلولة literally:
• the ground wet

This is the normal Arabic order:

• noun + adjective

Compare:

• بنت طويلة = a tall girl
• بيت كبير = a big house
• الارض مبلولة = the ground is wet

Yes, sometimes you can, especially in spoken Arabic.

For example, you may hear:

• الارض لسه مبلولة
• الارض مبلولة لسه

Both can be understood as The ground is still wet.

The version with لسه before the adjective is very straightforward and common. Putting لسه later can sound a bit more conversational or give slightly different emphasis, but both are natural in speech.

A natural Modern Standard Arabic version would be:

بعد المطر، الأرض ما زالت مبللة.

Key differences:

• Levantine لسه becomes MSA ما زالت for still
• Levantine مبلولة is often replaced by the more standard مبللة
• Pronunciation and style are more formal in MSA

So the Levantine sentence is more everyday and conversational.

Yes. That would also be natural, but it means something slightly different in structure.

• بعد المطر = after the rain
• بعد ما نزل المطر = after the rain fell / after it rained

The first uses a noun phrase. The second uses a full clause.

Both are possible in Levantine, but بعد المطر is shorter and very natural here.

Both relate to wetness, but they are not exactly the same.

• مبلولة usually suggests something has become wet, often from water or rain
• رطبة is more like moist or damp

For ground after rain, مبلولة is very natural because the ground has actually gotten wet from the rain.

So:

• الارض لسه مبلولة = the ground is still wet feels very appropriate in this context.

Most of it would be widely understood, but لسه is especially common in Levantine and some nearby dialects.

The sentence sounds very natural in Levantine because of words like:

• لسه
• the everyday adjective مبلولة

Other dialects may use slightly different words or pronunciation, but many Arabic speakers would still understand it. The biggest clearly colloquial element here is لسه.