🇪🇬 Everyday Egyptian Arabic

Unit 4 · Working & living in Egypt · 9 min

On Egyptian streets people speak Egyptian Arabic. Useful words: إِزَّيَّك how are you, كْوَيِّس good, مَاشِي OK, يَلَّا let's go / hurry, مَعْلِش never mind / sorry, عَايِز want. Formal settings still use MSA.

Words in this lesson

• إِزَّيَّك (izzayyak) — how are you? (Egyptian)
• كْوَيِّس (kwayyis) — good; fine (Egyptian)
• مَاشِي (māshī) — OK (Egyptian)
• يَلَّا (yallā) — let's go; come on
• مَعْلِش (maʿlish) — never mind; sorry (Egyptian)
• عَايِز (ʿāyiz) — want (Egyptian)

This lesson helps Chinese learners understand Egyptian speech; the rest of the site uses MSA.

Project: Listen to an everyday Egyptian conversation and note the dialect words you hear.