Egyptian Grammar

The Egyptian grammar allows you to manipulate the vocabulary to obtain multiple forms of a word. The grammatical rules below are the most important in Egyptian and help connect words or shape the structure. We start with the prepositions:

And: وَ  [we]	Under: تحت  [that]
Before: قبل  [abl]	After: بعد  [ba'd]
Inside: جوه  [guwa]	Outside: برة  [barra]
With: مع  [ma'a]	But: بس  [bas]
For: ل  [le]	From: من  [men ]
To: ل  [le]	In: في  [fe]

Questions and Adverbs

To ask questions, use the following:

What?: إيه؟  [eeh?]	Who?: مِين؟  [meen?]
How?: إزّاي؟  [ezay?]	Why?: ليه؟  [leeh?]
Where?: فين؟  [feen?]

Some of the most important time adverbs:

Never: أبدًا  [abadan]	Rarely: نادرًا  [naderan]
Sometimes: أحيانـًا  [ahyanan]	Usually: عادًة  [adatan]
Always: دايماً  [dayman]	Very: جداَ  [gedan]

Most commonly used pronouns in Egyptian:

I: أنا  [ana]	You: إنتَ, إنتِ  [enta, enti]
He: هُوَّا  [huwa]	She: هِيَّا  [hiya]
We: اِحْنا  [ehna]	They: هُمَّا  [humma]

To express the possession of something [possessive form]:

My: ــــي  [~ee]	Your: ــــَك  [~k]
His: ــــُه  [~h]	Her: ــــها  [~ha]
Our: ــــنا  [~na]	Their: ــــهم  [~hum]

Grammar in a sentence

Some random verbs to show how it's being used:

I speak English: أنا بَتكَلِّم إنجليزي  [ana batkalem egelizi]

You speak French: إنت بِتِتكَلِّم فَرَنساوي  [enta betetkalem faransawi]

He speaks German: هُوَّا بِيتكَلِّم ألماني  [huwa beyetkalem almani]

She speaks Italian: هِيَّا بِتِتكَلِّم إيطالي  [hiya betetkalem itali]

I visited France: أنا زُرت فَرَنسا  [ana zurt faransa]

I will drink milk: أنا حاشرَب لَبَن  [ana hashrab laban]

Some extra grammatical structures:

I understand you: أنا فاهمَك  [ana fahmak]

I don't understand you: أنا مِش فاهمَك  [ana mesh fahmak]

I don't speak French: أنا مَبَتكَلِمش فَرَنساوي  [ana mabatkalemsh faransawi]

This is my house: دا بِيتي  [da bete]

That restaurant is far: المَطعَم اللي هِناك بِعيد  [elmat'am elli henak be'ed]

No problem: مَفيش مُشكِلَة  [mafeesh mushkila]

The above Egyptian grammar can provide tools to use in coordination with the Egyptian vocabulary to obtain some popular Egyptian phrases.