اختي صارت ساكنة بحي جديد، بس شغلها بعده قريب وما غيرت الطريق.

This is a very common Levantine pattern:

صار / صارت + active participle

Here:

• صارت = she became / she ended up / she came to be
• ساكنة = living / residing

So صارت ساكنة literally means something like she became living, but in natural English it usually comes out as:

• she moved and now lives
• she ended up living
• she started living

It emphasizes a new situation or change of state.

Not always. ساكنة can also mean quiet or still in other contexts. But here, because it is followed by بحي جديد (in a new neighborhood), the meaning is clearly living/residing.

So in this sentence, ساكنة comes from the verb سكن = to live / reside.

حي means neighborhood, district, or quarter of a city.

So:

• بحي جديد = in a new neighborhood

The preposition بـ here means in.

Because جديد is describing حي, not اختي.

• حي is a masculine noun
• so the adjective must also be masculine: جديد

Even though the person being talked about is your sister, the adjective agrees with neighborhood, not with sister.

In Levantine, بس can mean different things depending on context. Two very common meanings are:

• only / just
• but

In this sentence, it means but:

• بس شغلها بعده قريب = but her work is still close

This is extremely common in spoken Levantine.

It can mean any of those, depending on context.

• شغل can mean work
• it can also mean job
• and sometimes it can refer to the place of work

In this sentence, because it says قريب (close/nearby), many learners understand it as either:

• her work/job is still close
• her workplace is still nearby

All of those fit the Levantine meaning reasonably well.

Here بعده means still or it remains.

So:

• شغلها بعده قريب = her work is still close

The ـه in بعده is masculine singular, and it matches شغل because شغل is grammatically masculine.

So even though ها in شغلها means her, the thing being described is still شغل:

• شغل = masculine
• therefore بعده = masculine

This is a very common Levantine way to say still.

Because Arabic usually does not use a present-tense verb to be in sentences like this.

So where English says:

• her work is close

Arabic can simply say:

• شغلها قريب

In this sentence, بعده adds the idea of still:

• شغلها بعده قريب = her work is still close

So the sentence is complete even without a separate word meaning is.

Because in Levantine, ما is the normal way to negate a past tense verb.

• غيرت = she changed
• ما غيرت = she didn’t change

By contrast, مش is more commonly used with nouns, adjectives, participles, or non-past meanings, not usually with a simple past verb like this.

So ما غيرت is exactly what you would expect here.

Literally it means she changed the road/path, but in natural English it usually means:

• she didn’t change her route
• she didn’t change the way she goes

Here الطريق is best understood as the usual route she takes, probably to work.

So وما غيرت الطريق means that even though she moved to a new neighborhood, her way to work stayed basically the same.

A bit of both, depending on how you translate it.

At its core, صارت means became. But when it is followed by something like ساكنة, English often translates it more naturally as:

• started living
• ended up living
• now lives

So the important idea is a new state after a change. She was not living there before, and now she is.