امي حجزت موعد عند الدكتور عالتلفون.

Because the subject is أمي / امي = my mother, which is grammatically feminine singular.

In the past tense, the verb changes to match the subject:

• حجز = he booked
• حجزت = she booked

So أمي حجزت means my mother booked.

A word-by-word breakdown is:

• امي / أمي = my mother
• حجزت = booked
• موعد = an appointment
• عند = literally at / with / by
• الدكتور = the doctor
• عالتلفون = on the phone / by phone

So the sentence is literally something like:

• My mother booked an appointment with the doctor on the phone.

In natural English, this is usually understood as:

• My mother booked a doctor’s appointment over the phone.

In everyday Arabic typing, especially in dialect, people often drop the hamza in writing.

So:

• أمي = more careful/standard spelling
• امي = very common informal spelling

They mean the same thing and are pronounced the same here.

عند is a very common word in Levantine. Its basic idea is at or with someone / at someone’s place.

So عند الدكتور can mean:

• with the doctor
• at the doctor’s
• at the doctor’s office

In this sentence, it does not mean the mother is physically standing next to the doctor. It means the appointment is with the doctor.

This use of عند is very natural in spoken Arabic.

Both can be possible, but they are not always identical.

• عند الدكتور usually sounds like at the doctor’s / with the doctor as a service provider
• مع الدكتور is more literally with the doctor

For appointments, عند الدكتور is especially common because it reflects the idea of having an appointment at the doctor’s office or with that doctor.

So in this sentence, عند الدكتور sounds very natural.

عالتلفون is a spoken contraction of:

• على التلفون

In fast colloquial speech and writing, these often get merged:

• على + ال → عالـ

So:

• على التلفون = on the phone
• عالتلفون = same thing, just contracted and very common in dialect writing

This is extremely normal in Levantine.

Arabic often uses prepositions differently from English.

In Levantine, على التلفون literally means on the phone, and it is used where English might say:

• on the phone
• by phone
• over the phone

So even if the English translation says by phone, the Arabic expression is naturally على التلفون / عالتلفون.

Because the sentence means an appointment, not the appointment.

• موعد = an appointment / appointment
• الموعد = the appointment

When someone is making or booking one appointment, Arabic often leaves it indefinite:

• حجزت موعد = she booked an appointment

If you said حجزت الموعد, that would sound more like she booked the appointment, referring to a specific appointment already known in the conversation.

It is mostly understandable across Arabic varieties, but it clearly has a Levantine / colloquial flavor.

The most obvious dialect feature is:

• عالتلفون instead of the more formal على الهاتف or full على التلفون

Also, the whole sentence feels like natural spoken Arabic, not textbook MSA.

A more formal version might look like:

• حجزت أمي موعدًا عند الطبيب عبر الهاتف

But that sounds much more formal and less conversational.

A common Levantine-style pronunciation would be roughly:

• immi ḥajazit mawʿid ʿind id-doktōr ʿat-tilifōn

A few notes:

• أمي / امي is usually pronounced immi
• حجزت may sound like ḥajazit or ḥajzet, depending on region/speaker
• موعد is often pronounced close to mawʿid
• الدكتور in connected speech can sound like id-doktōr
• عالتلفون often sounds like ʿat-tilifōn or ʿa t-telefōn, depending on accent

Pronunciation varies across Levantine areas, but this gives the general idea.

Yes, in context it can point to both ideas.

When someone says:

• موعد عند الدكتور

they usually mean:

• an appointment with the doctor
• and by extension, often at the doctor’s office

Just like in English, the person and the place/service can blend together in meaning.

Usually no, not for this meaning.

• عند الدكتور = with the doctor / at the doctor’s
• للدكتور usually means for the doctor or belonging to the doctor

So حجزت موعد للدكتور could sound like she booked an appointment for the doctor, which is a different meaning.

To say your mother booked an appointment with the doctor, عند الدكتور is the natural choice.

The given word order is very natural:

• امي حجزت موعد عند الدكتور عالتلفون

You could move things around in speech, but the original order is simple and common.

For example:

• أمي حجزت موعد عالتلفون عند الدكتور
• حجزت أمي موعد عند الدكتور عالتلفون

These are possible, but they may sound less neutral depending on context.

For learners, the original order is a good model: subject + verb + object + extra details

It describes how the appointment was booked, not the doctor.

So the meaning is:

• My mother booked the appointment by phone

not:

• the doctor on the phone

In other words, عالتلفون tells you the method of booking.

Yes, but the tone changes.

• الدكتور is very common in everyday speech
• الطبيب is more formal and more MSA-like

In daily Levantine conversation, people very often say:

• الدكتور

So the original sentence sounds more natural in spoken dialect.

Yes, very much so.

حجز موعد is a common collocation meaning:

• to book an appointment
• to make an appointment

You will hear it in many situations:

• حجزت موعد عند دكتور الأسنان = I booked an appointment with the dentist
• لازم أحجز موعد = I need to book an appointment

So this is a very useful phrase to memorize as a chunk.

There are several possibilities, depending on region and style:

• التلفون = very common in speech
• التليفون = another common pronunciation/spelling
• الهاتف = more formal / MSA

So in natural Levantine conversation, عالتلفون is totally normal and probably the most everyday-sounding option.