رجلي بعدها عم توجعني، بس ضهري صار احسن من مبارح.

In this sentence, بعدها means still.

So:

• رجلي بعدها عم توجعني = My leg is still hurting me

This use comes from بعد, which often has the idea of remaining / still in Levantine.

Why بعدها and not بعده? Because رجلي (my leg) is treated as feminine, so the form agrees with it:

• بعدها = still (with a feminine noun)
• بعده = still (with a masculine noun)

A very close English gloss would be:

• My leg, it’s still hurting me

Good question. In Arabic, not all feminine nouns end in ـة.

The word رِجل (leg) is grammatically feminine, even though it does not have the usual feminine ending. Because of that, words connected to it often show feminine agreement, like:

• بعدها
• توجعني with تـ for a feminine subject

So the grammar is following رِجل as a feminine noun.

عم is a very common Levantine marker for an ongoing / current action, similar to English -ing.

So:

• عم توجعني = is hurting me
• more literally: is in the process of hurting me

Breakdown:

• عم = progressive marker
• توجع = hurts
• -ني = me

So توجعني literally means it hurts me, and عم توجعني means it is hurting me / it keeps hurting me.

Because the subject is رجلي (my leg), which is feminine singular.

In Levantine, the imperfect verb often begins with:

• يـ for masculine singular
• تـ for feminine singular

So here:

• رجلي ... توجعني = my leg hurts me

The -ني at the end means me.

So the full idea is:

• رجلي بعدها عم توجعني = My leg is still hurting me

رجلي is:

• رجل / رِجل = leg
• -ي = my

So:

• رجلي = my leg

One thing that can confuse learners is that Arabic writing usually leaves out short vowels, so the same consonants can look ambiguous. But here, from context, رجلي clearly means my leg, not another word.

صار literally means became or turned into, but in everyday Levantine it very often means got in English.

So:

• صار احسن = became better / got better

In natural English, you’d usually translate it as:

• my back got better
• or my back is better now

So in the sentence:

• بس ضهري صار احسن = but my back got better

Because من is used with comparisons, like English than.

So:

• احسن من مبارح = better than yesterday

Here:

• احسن = better
• من = than
• مبارح = yesterday

So even though من often means from, in comparisons it means than.

Yes. مبارح is a very common Levantine word for yesterday.

So:

• من مبارح = than yesterday

You’ll hear مبارح all the time in spoken Levantine. It’s much more natural in dialect than using formal words for yesterday.

In colloquial writing, spelling is often less standardized than in Modern Standard Arabic.

The word back is related to Standard Arabic ظهر. In Levantine casual writing, many people write it as ضهر or ضهري for my back.

So:

• ضهر = back
• ضهري = my back

This kind of spelling variation is very normal in dialect writing. A learner should get used to seeing more than one spelling for the same spoken word.

Yes, in many contexts you can hear both بعدها and لساتها to mean still.

So these are both natural:

• رجلي بعدها عم توجعني
• رجلي لساتها عم توجعني

They are very close in meaning. The exact preference can vary by region and speaker, but both are common Levantine ways to say my leg still hurts me.

A simple transliteration would be:

rijli baʿda ʿam twajjaʿni, bas ḍahri ṣār aḥsan min mbāreḥ

A few pronunciation notes:

• رجلي = rijli
• بعدها = baʿda
• عم = ʿam
• توجعني is often pronounced something like twajjaʿni or twajaʿni
• بس = bas
• ضهري = ḍahri
• صار = ṣār
• احسن = aḥsan
• مبارح = mbāreḥ

You may also hear slight variations depending on the speaker’s region.