كان المفروض الشحنة توصل امبارح.

A useful pronunciation guide is:

kān il-mafrūḍ ish-shiḥna tūsal imbāriḥ

A few notes:

• كان = kān
• المفروض = il-mafrūḍ or el-mafrūḍ
• الشحنة = ish-shiḥna or esh-sheḥna
• توصل = tūsal / tōṣal
• امبارح = imbāriḥ / embāreḥ

A more natural connected pronunciation may sound like:

kān il-mafrūḍ ish-shiḥna tūṣal imbāriḥ

Also, in الشحنة, the ل of ال is not really heard because ش is a sun letter, so it sounds like ish-shiḥna, not al-shiḥna.

كان المفروض is a very common Egyptian Arabic way to express was supposed to.

So:

• المفروض on its own often means supposed to, expected to, or should
• كان المفروض puts that idea in the past: was supposed to

Examples:

• المفروض أروح = I’m supposed to go
• كان المفروض أروح = I was supposed to go

In your sentence, كان المفروض sets up the whole idea that the shipment was expected to arrive.

Because كان is not mainly there to mark yesterday. It is there because the expression itself is in the past: was supposed to.

Compare:

• المفروض الشحنة توصل بكرة = The shipment is supposed to arrive tomorrow
• كان المفروض الشحنة توصل امبارح = The shipment was supposed to arrive yesterday

Even though امبارح already tells you the time, كان is still important because it changes supposed to into was supposed to.

Because after كان المفروض, Egyptian Arabic usually uses the imperfect verb to express the expected or intended action.

So:

• توصل = arrive / to arrive / should arrive
• وصلت = arrived

The sentence is not simply saying the shipment arrived yesterday. It is saying the shipment was supposed to arrive yesterday.

That is why توصل is the natural form here.

Because الشحنة is grammatically feminine in Arabic.

• شحنة is a feminine noun
• So the verb agrees with it in the feminine singular

That gives:

• الشحنة توصل = the shipment arrives / should arrive

If the noun were masculine, you would usually get يوصل instead.

For example:

• الطلب يوصل بكرة = The order arrives tomorrow

In Egyptian Arabic, بـ often marks the regular present tense or habitual actions.

For example:

• الشحنة بتوصل كل أسبوع = The shipment arrives every week

But after words and expressions like المفروض, لازم, ممكن, عايز, Egyptian Arabic often uses the bare imperfect without بـ.

So:

• المفروض الشحنة توصل = The shipment is supposed to arrive

This is not a habitual statement like it usually arrives. It is an expected event, so توصل is the natural choice.

المفروض literally has the sense of the supposed, the assumed, or the expected, but in everyday Egyptian Arabic it often works like:

• supposed to
• should
• expected to

Its exact English translation depends on context.

Examples:

• المفروض أكون هناك الساعة ٦ = I’m supposed to be there at 6
• المفروض تعمل كده = You’re supposed to do that / You should do that
• المفروض القطر ييجي دلوقتي = The train is supposed to come now

So in your sentence, المفروض expresses expectation, not certainty.

Yes, امبارح is a very common colloquial Egyptian word for yesterday.

A learner should know:

• امبارح = Egyptian colloquial
• In Modern Standard Arabic, you would more often see أمس or البارحة

So this sentence is clearly colloquial Egyptian, not formal written Arabic.

This word order is very natural in Egyptian Arabic.

The sentence is structured like this:

• كان المفروض = was supposed to
• الشحنة = the shipment
• توصل = arrive
• امبارح = yesterday

So the sentence first gives the frame of expectation, then the subject, then the action, then the time.

You could hear slight variations in speech, but this order is very common and natural.

For example, people may also say:

• الشحنة كان المفروض توصل امبارح

That also sounds natural, with a bit more focus on the shipment.

Yes, but the meaning changes.

• المفروض الشحنة توصل امبارح can be understood in speech, but it may sound less carefully anchored in the past.
• كان المفروض الشحنة توصل امبارح clearly means the shipment was supposed to arrive yesterday.

So if you want the past meaning to be explicit and natural, كان is the safer choice.

A natural way is:

ماكانش المفروض الشحنة توصل امبارح

This means:

The shipment wasn’t supposed to arrive yesterday.

Breakdown:

• ما...ش = common Egyptian negation pattern
• ماكانش = was not
• المفروض = supposed to
• الشحنة توصل = the shipment arrive

So:

• كان المفروض الشحنة توصل امبارح = The shipment was supposed to arrive yesterday
• ماكانش المفروض الشحنة توصل امبارح = The shipment wasn’t supposed to arrive yesterday

Very often, yes, or at least it suggests that something went wrong with the expectation.

In real conversation, كان المفروض الشحنة توصل امبارح usually implies one of these:

• it did not arrive
• it may have been delayed
• the speaker is complaining or pointing out a problem

But grammatically, the sentence itself only says it was supposed to arrive yesterday. The failure is often an implication from context, not a strict part of the grammar.

People really say this kind of sentence in everyday Egyptian Arabic. It sounds natural and common.

Features that make it clearly colloquial include:

• امبارح for yesterday
• the everyday expression كان المفروض
• normal spoken Egyptian word order

So this is the kind of sentence you could genuinely hear in conversation about a package, order, delivery, or shipment.