الطابة قريبة من المرمى.

A common Levantine pronunciation is eṭ-ṭābe ʔarībe mn il-marma.

A few notes:

• الطابة is often pronounced eṭ-ṭābe because the ل of الـ blends into ط
• قريبة is often ʔarībe in many urban Levantine accents, but qarībe is also possible in other accents
• من is often reduced in speech to mn
• المرمى is commonly pronounced il-marma

Regional variation is very normal in Levantine.

Because Arabic usually leaves out is/are in the present tense when making this kind of sentence.

So:

• الطابة قريبة من المرمى = The ball is near the goal

This is called a nominal sentence.

If you wanted past or future, you would use a verb:

• الطابة كانت قريبة من المرمى = The ball was near the goal
• الطابة رح تكون قريبة من المرمى = The ball will be near the goal

Because الطابة is feminine, and the adjective has to agree with it.

So:

• طابة is a feminine noun
• therefore the adjective is قريبة = feminine near

If the noun were masculine, you would use قريب:

• الباب قريب = The door is near

A useful clue is that nouns ending in ـة are very often feminine.

Because here قريبة is the predicate of the sentence, not an adjective inside a noun phrase.

Compare these:

• الطابة قريبة من المرمى = The ball is near the goal
• الطابة القريبة من المرمى = the ball that is near the goal / the near ball by the goal

In other words:

• no الـ on قريبة → it is saying something about the ball
• with الـ on القريبة → it becomes part of the noun phrase describing which ball

This is a very common and important pattern in Arabic.

Yes. In Arabic, adjectives normally come after the noun they describe.

Examples:

• طابة كبيرة = a big ball
• الطابة الكبيرة = the big ball

In your sentence, the pattern is slightly different because قريبة is the predicate, but it still comes after the noun:

• الطابة قريبة = The ball is near

So for an English speaker, it helps to get used to noun first, adjective after.

Yes, من very often means from, but after قريب it means something like near to.

So:

• قريب من = near
• literally, it may feel like near from, but that is not how you should translate it in English

Examples:

• قريب من البيت = near the house
• قريبة من المرمى = near the goal

So the best thing is to learn قريب من as a set expression.

Because طابة is a common Levantine colloquial word for ball.

Compare:

• الطابة = everyday Levantine
• الكرة = more standard / MSA-style

A native speaker would understand both, but طابة sounds more naturally Levantine in casual speech.

So:

• Levantine: الطابة قريبة من المرمى
• MSA-style: الكرة قريبة من المرمى

Because ط is a sun letter, while م is a moon letter.

That means:

• الطابة → the ل of الـ assimilates, so you hear eṭ-ṭābe
• المرمى → the ل stays, so you hear il-marma

So even though both words are written with الـ, they are not pronounced the same way.

This is a general Arabic pronunciation rule, not something unique to this sentence.

It depends on the region and accent.

Common possibilities:

• ʔarībe in many urban Levantine accents, where ق becomes a glottal stop
• qarībe in other Levantine accents, especially some rural or more conservative pronunciations

So both can be Levantine, depending on who is speaking.

If you are learning one specific city dialect, it is best to follow that dialect consistently.

In Levantine pronunciation:

• final ـة is usually pronounced -e in pause
• final ى is usually pronounced -a

So you often hear:

• طابة → ṭābe
• قريبة → ʔarībe or qarībe
• المرمى → marma

This is one reason colloquial pronunciation can sound quite different from what an English speaker expects from the spelling.

المرمى means the goal, so it is definite because the speaker is talking about a specific goal, probably the one in the game or scene.

You could make it indefinite:

• طابة قريبة من مرمى = a ball near a goal

But in many real situations, the goal is more natural than a goal, so المرمى makes sense.

A natural MSA version would be:

الكرة قريبة من المرمى

The structure is basically the same:

• الكرة instead of الطابة
• قريبة من المرمى stays the same

So this Levantine sentence is very close to MSA in grammar, but it uses a more dialectal everyday word for ball.