لولا الكاميرا، ما كنت قدرت ابعت صورة الجرح للصيدلي.

لولا means if it weren’t for or were it not for.

So لولا الكاميرا means if it weren’t for the camera.

In Arabic, لولا is often used before a noun to mention the thing that made something possible or prevented something bad from happening.

Because ما كنت قدرت gives a counterfactual past meaning: I wouldn’t have been able to or I couldn’t have managed to.

• ما قدرت = I couldn’t / I wasn’t able to
• ما كنت قدرت = I wouldn’t have been able to in that hypothetical situation

That fits well after لولا الكاميرا, because the speaker is talking about an unreal alternative: without the camera, sending the picture would not have been possible.

It is كان in the past (كنت) plus another past verb (قدرت).

In Levantine, this combination is very commonly used for meanings like:

• would have done
• would have been able to
• had managed to

So here:

• كنت قدرت = I would have been able / I would have managed
• ما كنت قدرت = I would not have been able / I couldn’t have managed

This is a very natural colloquial way to express a past unreal result.

Yes, many speakers would say that too, but the nuance is a little different.

• ما كنت بقدر ابعت often means I wouldn’t be able to send or I wasn’t able to send
• ما كنت قدرت ابعت feels more like I wouldn’t have managed to send or I couldn’t have succeeded in sending

In everyday speech, the lines can overlap, but ما كنت قدرت is especially good for this kind of if it weren’t for X sentence.

Because after verbs like قدر (to be able / manage), Levantine usually uses the following verb in a bare imperfect form, without بـ.

So:

• بقدر ابعت = I can send
• قدرت ابعت = I managed to send / I was able to send

You would normally not say قدرت ببعت here.

The بـ prefix is often used for regular present or habitual meaning, but after another verb like قدر, it usually drops.

ابعت is from the Levantine verb يبعت = to send.

It is the normal everyday colloquial word in many Levantine varieties.

Compared with more formal Arabic:

• Levantine: يبعت
• Formal/MSA: يرسل or sometimes يبعث depending on wording

So ابعت صورة means send a picture.

This is a noun combination meaning a picture of the wound.

• صورة = picture
• الجرح = the wound

Together they form what Arabic grammar calls an iḍāfa structure, or construct phrase:

• صورة الجرح = picture of the wound

In colloquial Arabic, learners often just need to remember the pattern:

• noun 1 + noun 2
• where noun 2 tells you what noun 1 belongs to or is about

Like:

• باب البيت = the door of the house
• رقم التلفون = the phone number

Because the speaker is probably talking about a specific wound already known from context.

Arabic often uses the definite article in places where English might sound less definite. So الجرح here is very natural.

Also, in a medical or situational context, the wound is usually the obvious wound being discussed, so Arabic marks it as definite.

This is لـ + الصيدلي combined together.

• لـ = to / for
• الصيدلي = the pharmacist
• للصيدلي = to the pharmacist

Arabic often joins short prepositions directly onto the next word in writing.

So:

• ل + الـ becomes للـ

That is why you see للصيدلي as one written word.

Because Arabic verbs already show the subject.

In كنت and قدرت, the form already tells you the subject is I.

So أنا is usually omitted unless the speaker wants emphasis, contrast, or clarity.

For example:

• ما كنت قدرت ابعت... = normal, natural
• أنا ما كنت قدرت ابعت... = more emphasis on I

Omitting the pronoun is completely normal in Levantine.

Yes, it sounds natural.

It uses several very normal colloquial features:

• لولا for if it weren’t for
• ما كنت قدرت for a past counterfactual result
• ابعت as the everyday Levantine verb send
• simple spoken syntax without formal endings

So this is a good example of natural spoken Levantine rather than formal textbook Arabic.