حملت الكرتونة.

A common Levantine-style pronunciation would sound roughly like ḥamalt / ḥamalet il-kartūneh, depending on the intended subject and the dialect.

A few useful pronunciation notes:

• ح is a stronger, deeper h than English h.
• ال is usually pronounced il- or el- in Levantine.
• In الكرتونة, the ل of ال is pronounced normally, because ك is a moon letter.
• The final ة is usually pronounced -e or -eh in Levantine, so كرتونة sounds like kartūneh.

It is a past / perfect verb form. It refers to a completed action, so the carrying happened in the past.

The basic verb is حمل. In this sentence, حملت is the past form with a -ت ending.

Because Arabic verbs often include the subject inside the verb itself.

So instead of saying a separate pronoun every time, Arabic can just use the verb form:

• أنا حملت...
• هي حملت...
• إنت حملت...

In all of these, the verb carries important subject information. Pronouns are often added only when needed for emphasis or clarity.

Yes. This is one of the most common things that confuses learners.

Written as حملت without vowel marks, it can match several different forms. In full vowelled Arabic, it could be things like:

• حَمَلْتُ = I carried
• حَمَلْتَ = you carried (masculine)
• حَمَلْتِ = you carried (feminine)
• حَمَلَتْ = she carried

In normal everyday writing, short vowels are usually omitted, so people rely on context to know which one is meant.

الـ is the definite article, the same idea as the in English.

So كرتونة is a carton / a box, while الكرتونة is the carton / the box.

In Levantine speech, الـ is usually pronounced el- or il-, so الكرتونة is typically something like il-kartūneh.

In everyday Levantine, كرتونة usually refers to a carton, cardboard box, or box made of cardboard.

It is more specific than a very general English box. Depending on context, other Arabic words like علبة or صندوق might be used for other kinds of boxes.

Yes, كرتونة is grammatically feminine, and the ة is the usual feminine ending, called taa marbuuTa.

In Levantine, this ending is usually pronounced -e / -eh at the end of a word, which is why learners often hear kartūneh.

Also, an important grammar point:

• الكرتونة is the object here, not the subject.
• So its femininity does not control the verb in this sentence.

The verb agrees with the hidden subject, not with الكرتونة.

Because the verb already contains the subject information, and the noun after it is what receives the action.

So the structure is:

• حملت = the subject is built into the verb
• الكرتونة = the thing being carried

This kind of compact structure is very normal in Arabic.

The sentence is basically:

• verb + object

Since the subject is not stated separately, the sentence stays very short.

If you wanted to make the subject explicit, you could say things like:

• أنا حملت الكرتونة
• هي حملت الكرتونة

But very often, Arabic leaves the pronoun out if the context already makes it clear.

Yes, it is understandable and natural enough.

That said, in very everyday speech, many Levantine speakers might also use شال and say something like شلت الكرتونة, especially for carried / picked up.

So حملت الكرتونة is fine, but depending on the region and situation, another verb might sound even more conversational.

Not in Levantine.

Levantine Arabic does not use the full case-ending system of formal Arabic in normal speech, so you would not pronounce endings like -u or -a the way you do in fully vowelled MSA.

That is why this kind of sentence in Levantine is written and said much more simply. In fully vocalized formal Arabic, the endings would be shown, but in Levantine they are not part of normal spoken grammar.