اللاعب مرر الطابة والكابتن شاطها.

A natural Levantine-style pronunciation would be:

il-lāʿeb marrar eṭ-ṭābe w-il-kābten shāṭ-ha

A few notes:

• اللاعب → il-lāʿeb
• مرر → marrar
• الطابة → eṭ-ṭābe
• والكابتن → w-il-kābten
• شاطها → shāṭ-ha

You may also hear small vowel differences depending on region, but this is a good practical pronunciation.

Because in Levantine, subject–verb–object order is very common in everyday speech.

So:

• اللاعب مرر الطابة = The player passed the ball

This is very normal colloquial word order.
Arabic can also use verb-first order, but Levantine often prefers starting with the subject, especially in simple conversational sentences.

Because this verb is on a pattern with a doubled middle consonant, often called Form II.

So:

• مرر → marrar = he passed

The doubled ر is part of the verb pattern, not a typo.
This pattern often gives a more “causative” or “intensive” sense compared with a simpler root form.

In practice, you should just learn marrar as the normal way to say he passed in this context.

Both are past tense, 3rd person masculine singular:

• مرر = he passed
• شاط = he kicked

That matches the subjects here:

• اللاعب = the player
• الكابتن = the captain

Both are singular masculine nouns, so the verb form is singular masculine too.

The ها is an attached object pronoun meaning it or her.

So:

• شاط = he kicked
• شاطها = he kicked it

It refers back to الطابة.

Arabic very often attaches object pronouns directly to verbs, instead of using a separate word like English it.

Because الطابة is a grammatically feminine noun in Arabic.

So even though a ball is not biologically female, Arabic grammar still treats the noun as feminine, and the pronoun has to match that:

• الطابة → feminine singular
• so the object pronoun is ها = it/her

This is very common in Arabic. Grammatical gender does not always match real-world gender.

In Levantine, طابة is a very common everyday word for ball.

So:

• طابة = ball

A learner may also know كرة, which is more standard or formal Arabic.
In Levantine conversation, طابة is extremely natural.

So this sentence sounds colloquial and regional, not like textbook Modern Standard Arabic.

It is a loanword used in Arabic, especially in sports contexts.

• كابتن = captain

In Levantine, people commonly use borrowed words like this in everyday speech.
So الكابتن here is perfectly natural and means the team captain.

You may hear it pronounced something like kābten.

Because و meaning and is normally written as a prefix in Arabic.

So:

• و + الكابتن → والكابتن

It is pronounced like w- attached to the following word:

• w-il-kābten = and the captain

This is completely normal Arabic spelling.

This happens because of the Arabic definite article ال.

In pronunciation, the l of ال sometimes merges into the first consonant of the noun if that consonant is a sun letter.

So:

• اللاعب is pronounced il-lāʿeb, with a doubled l
• الطابة is pronounced eṭ-ṭābe, with a doubled ṭ

But in writing, Arabic still keeps the normal spelling with ال.

That is the letter ع, and in لاعب it gives:

• lāʿeb

The sound ʿ has no exact English equivalent.
It is a deep throat sound produced farther back than normal English sounds.

For beginners, the most important thing is to notice that it is a real consonant and not just a silent letter.

So لاعب is not just laeb — the ع is part of the word.

Because this sentence is in Levantine Arabic, not formal Modern Standard Arabic.

In everyday Levantine speech:

• case endings are generally not used
• vocabulary is often more colloquial
• pronunciation is different from formal Arabic

So this sentence sounds natural in spoken Levantine.
A more formal MSA-style version would look different in vocabulary and grammar.