هو عايز يتسلق.

A common pronunciation is:

huwwa ʿāyez yitsallaʾ

You may also hear howwa for هو, and ʿāyiz / ʿāyez for عايز depending on accent and transliteration style.

A few helpful notes:

• هو is usually pronounced huwwa/howwa, not just hu
• عايز starts with ع, a sound English does not have
• يتسلق is often pronounced yitsallaʾ in Egyptian, because the final ق is commonly pronounced as a glottal stop in Cairo speech

هو means he, and it is often used in Egyptian Arabic for clarity.

In many cases, Arabic can drop subject pronouns, but here هو helps make the subject explicit.

Also, عايز by itself can sometimes be ambiguous in conversation, because the form عايز can mean:

• I want (if the speaker is male)
• he wants

So adding هو makes it very clear that the subject is he.

عايز is the very common Egyptian Arabic way to say wanting / wanting to / wants.

Grammatically, it comes from an active participle, but in everyday Egyptian it functions very much like a verb meaning to want.

It changes for gender and number:

• عايز = wanting / wants (masculine singular)
• عايزة = wanting / wants (feminine singular)
• عايزين = wanting / want (plural)

So:

• هو عايز = he wants
• هي عايزة = she wants
• هم عايزين = they want

In Modern Standard Arabic, you often get a structure like:

يريد أن يتسلق

But in Egyptian Arabic, after عايز, you normally just use the next verb directly, without أن.

So Egyptian says:

هو عايز يتسلق

not:

هو عايز أن يتسلق

That makes the Egyptian structure simpler and very common in speech.

This is a very common learner question.

In Egyptian Arabic, the prefix بـ often marks an ordinary present/habitual verb in a main clause:

• هو بيتسلق = he climbs / he is climbing

But after words like عايز (want), the following verb usually appears without بـ:

• هو عايز يتسلق = he wants to climb

So here, يتسلق works like to climb, not like an independent present-tense verb.

يتسلق is the imperfect form of تسلّق = to climb.

The prefix يـ shows that the subject is:

• third person
• masculine
• singular

So يتسلق literally corresponds to he climbs / he would climb / to climb depending on context.

In this sentence, because it follows عايز, the meaning is to climb.

Yes, it is correct, but learners should know that in everyday Egyptian speech, people also often use يطلع in climbing-related situations, depending on context.

A rough contrast:

• يتسلق = to climb, especially to climb up something physically
• يطلع = to go up / go up onto / climb up, broader and very common

For example, someone might say:

• يتسلق الجبل = climb the mountain
• يطلع الشجرة = climb the tree / go up the tree

So يتسلق is good and clear, but it is not the only verb you may hear.

Both are common Egyptian forms meaning wanting / wants.

You may hear:

• عايز
• عاوز

Both are normal. The choice depends on region, personal habit, and spelling preference.

So these are basically the same in meaning:

• هو عايز يتسلق
• هو عاوز يتسلق

You change both عايز and the second verb as needed.

Examples:

• هي عايزة تتسلق = she wants to climb
• أنا عايز أتسلق = I want to climb (said by a male speaker)
• أنا عايزة أتسلق = I want to climb (said by a female speaker)
• هم عايزين يتسلقوا = they want to climb

Notice:

• he: عايز + يتسلق
• she: عايزة + تتسلق
• I: عايز/عايزة + أتسلق
• they: عايزين + يتسلقوا

To say He doesn’t want to climb, the most natural Egyptian Arabic way is:

هو مش عايز يتسلق

Here, مش negates عايز.

Compare:

• هو عايز يتسلق = he wants to climb
• هو مش عايز يتسلق = he doesn’t want to climb

If you negate the second verb instead, you change the meaning:

• هو عايز ما يتسلقش = he wants not to climb / he wants to avoid climbing

That is a different idea.

For a yes/no question, Egyptian Arabic often just uses the same word order with questioning intonation:

هو عايز يتسلق؟

That means:

Does he want to climb?

So in speech, intonation does a lot of the work.

In English, it is usually translated as He wants to climb.

In Egyptian Arabic, this kind of sentence is not marked for tense in exactly the same way English is. In most normal contexts, it simply expresses a present desire or intention.

So learners should understand it naturally as:

• He wants to climb
• possibly He’s wanting to climb in a very literal sense, though that is not natural English

The best normal translation is just He wants to climb.

Yes, it is grammatical and understandable.

It sounds like a normal Egyptian sentence meaning that a male person wants to climb something. In very casual everyday conversation, speakers might choose a different climbing verb depending on the situation, but هو عايز يتسلق is still a solid and natural sentence for learners to know.