التعويض مش متاح دلوقتي.

Compensation is not available now.

Breakdown of التعويض مش متاح دلوقتي.

• مش: not
• دلوقتي: now
• التعويض: the compensation
• متاح: available

Questions & Answers about التعويض مش متاح دلوقتي.

How would I pronounce the whole sentence in Egyptian Arabic?

A common pronunciation is et-taʿwīḍ mish metāḥ dilwaʔti.

A rough word-by-word guide:

• التعويض → et-taʿwīḍ
• مش → mish
• متاح → metāḥ
• دلوقتي → dilwaʔti

A few notes:

• The exact vowels can vary a bit by speaker.
• The ʔ in dilwaʔti is a glottal stop, like the break in the middle of uh-oh.

Why is there no word for is in this sentence?

Because in Arabic, especially in the present tense, you usually do not say a separate verb for to be.

So التعويض مش متاح دلوقتي is literally structured like:

• the compensation
• not available
• now

This is completely normal Arabic grammar. In English you need is, but in Arabic present-tense sentences often leave it out.

If you wanted past or future, then you would normally use a verb:

• كان التعويض مش متاح = the compensation was not available
• التعويض مش هيبقى متاح = the compensation will not be available

What does مش do here?

is the Egyptian Arabic word for in many everyday sentences.