التصليح اخد بالضبط ساعة.

التصليح means the repair or the fixing. It comes from the verb صلّح = to repair / fix.

In this sentence, it is being used as a noun, not as a verb, so you can think of it as the repair job.

الـ is the Arabic definite article, like the in English.

So:

• تصليح = a repair / repair work
• التصليح = the repair

In this sentence, the speaker is talking about a specific repair that both people already know about, so التصليح is natural.

In Levantine Arabic, اخد is very commonly used for time duration:

• اخد ساعة = it took an hour
• اخد خمس دقايق = it took five minutes

This is very normal everyday Levantine.
English uses take this way too, so the structure matches English quite nicely here.

اخد is a common colloquial spelling.

A few things are happening:

• In more formal Arabic, you often see أخذ
• In Levantine writing, people often simplify spelling and write اخد
• The final ذ of formal أخذ is often pronounced more like د in everyday speech, so اخد reflects colloquial pronunciation well

So اخد is a very normal Levantine-style way to write it.

Because Arabic does not need a dummy subject like English it here.

In English, we say:

• It took an hour

But in Arabic, the actual subject is stated directly:

• التصليح اخد ساعة
  literally: the repair took an hour

So there is no need for a separate word meaning it.

Yes, you could change the word order, but the sentence as written is very natural in Levantine.

• التصليح اخد بالضبط ساعة = very natural
• اخد التصليح بالضبط ساعة = also possible, but less neutral in everyday speech

Levantine often likes subject + verb + rest in casual conversation, especially when the subject is already known.

So the given sentence sounds very normal and straightforward.

بالضبط means exactly.

It comes from a phrase that literally has the sense of with precision / precisely, but as a learner, it is best to treat it as a fixed adverb meaning exactly.

Here it modifies ساعة:

• اخد بالضبط ساعة = it took exactly an hour

So it is specifying that the duration was not approximate.

Yes. In Levantine, both of these are natural:

• التصليح اخد بالضبط ساعة
• التصليح اخد ساعة بالضبط

Both mean The repair took exactly an hour.

A small nuance:

• بالضبط ساعة puts the focus a bit earlier on precision
• ساعة بالضبط may sound a little more like an hour exactly

But in normal conversation, the difference is small.

In Arabic, a bare singular noun often expresses one unit after verbs of duration.

So:

• اخد ساعة = it took an hour
• نطرت يوم = I waited a day

You do not need a separate word for an like in English.

So ساعة by itself naturally means an hour here.

Because Arabic commonly uses a time word directly after the verb to express duration.

So in Levantine you say:

• اخد ساعة
• اخد عشر دقايق
• اخد يومين

This is normal Arabic structure for how long something took.
English does the same thing: It took an hour, not It took for an hour.

Yes, but it would sound more formal or more like Modern Standard Arabic.

For example:

• استغرق التصليح ساعة بالضبط

This is correct and clear, but in everyday Levantine, اخد is much more natural.

So:

• اخد = everyday Levantine
• استغرق = formal / written / MSA-leaning

A rough pronunciation is:

et-taSLEEH akhad bizzabt saaʿa

A few notes:

• التصليح → et-taSleeh
  The ال is pronounced together with the following ت
• اخد → akhad
• بالضبط is often heard like bizzabt
• ساعة → saaʿa
  The ʿ represents the letter ع, a sound English does not have

You do not need perfect transliteration, but this rough version will help you recognize it in speech.