عمرنا ما اشترينا طوق وسلسلة لكلب قبل كده.

Literally, عمرنا means our life / our lifetime / our age.
When Egyptians say عمرنا ما + verb, it means never in our lives have we...

So:

• عمرنا = our lifetime
• ما = negative marker
• عمرنا ما اشترينا = we have never bought

It is a very common way to express never in Egyptian Arabic.

Because Arabic often uses the perfect/past form to talk about life experience, where English prefers the present perfect.

So اشترينا literally looks like we bought, but after عمرنا ما, the whole phrase means:

• we have never bought
• we never bought before
• we’ve never, in our lives, bought

This is very normal in Egyptian Arabic.

That is a very common learner question.

In ordinary Egyptian negation, you often get:

• ما اشتريناش = we didn’t buy

But with عمرنا ما meaning never in our lives, the verb is very often used without the final -ش:

• عمرنا ما اشترينا

This pattern is standard and natural.
So here, عمرنا ما already gives the strong never meaning, and the sentence does not need -ش.

It could, but it does not have to.

Egyptian Arabic often drops subject pronouns when the verb already shows who the subject is. Here:

• اشترينا = we bought
• the ending -نا already tells you the subject is we

Also, عمرنا already contains our, which also points to we/us.

So إحنا would only be added for emphasis or contrast.

In this sentence, طوق means a collar.

The basic idea of طوق is something like a ring or band around the neck.
So with a dog, it naturally means dog collar.

In context:

• طوق = collar
• سلسلة = chain / leash-like item, depending on context

Together, they mean something like a collar and chain/leash for a dog.

Because they are indefinite here.

The sentence is talking about:

• a collar
• and a chain

not:

• the collar
• and the chain

So:

• طوق وسلسلة = a collar and a chain
• الطوق والسلسلة = the collar and the chain

Arabic often leaves nouns bare like this to express the English idea of a/an.

Because لكلب means for a dog, while للكلب means for the dog.

So the difference is:

• لكلب = for a dog / for some dog
• للكلب = for the dog / for that specific dog

In this sentence, the dog is not treated as a specific known one, so the indefinite form لكلب is used.

قبل كده is a very common Egyptian expression meaning:

• before this
• before now
• earlier than this
• ever before (in the right context)

In a sentence like this, it works very naturally as:

• before
• before now
• ever before

So عمرنا ما اشترينا ... قبل كده means we’ve never bought ... before.

In many contexts, it can mean either, depending on what the speaker has in mind.
But in this sentence, the natural meaning is before now or ever before.

So here it is not really pointing back to one specific earlier event.
It is expressing past experience up to the present:

• we’ve never done this before

Yes, this word order is very natural.

The phrase is built like this:

• اشترينا = bought
• طوق وسلسلة = a collar and a chain
• لكلب = for a dog
• قبل كده = before

So the sentence gives the two things first, then says who they are for:

• a collar and a chain for a dog

That is perfectly normal Egyptian Arabic word order.

A simple pronunciation guide would be:

ʿomrna ma eshtareena ṭoʔ w selsela le-kalb ʔabl kida

A few useful pronunciation notes:

• عمرنا = roughly ʿomrna
• اشترينا = eshtareena
• طوق is often pronounced ṭoʔ in Egyptian, because ق usually becomes a glottal stop
• قبل becomes ʔabl for the same reason
• كده is commonly pronounced kida or keda

So the sentence sounds quite different from a letter-by-letter Modern Standard Arabic reading.

Yes, that is close to the literal structure.

A more literal breakdown is:

• عمرنا = in our life / in our lifetime
• ما اشترينا = we did not buy
• طوق وسلسلة = a collar and a chain
• لكلب = for a dog
• قبل كده = before this / before now

But natural English usually becomes:

• We’ve never bought a collar and chain for a dog before.

So the Arabic structure is a little more literal than the best English translation.