انا عايز القميص الازرق.

A common Cairene pronunciation is:

ana ʿāyez el-ʔamīṣ el-ʔazraʔ

A rough breakdown:

• أنا → ana
• عايز → ʿāyez or ʿāyiz
• القميص → el-ʔamīṣ
• الأزرق → el-ʔazraʔ

A few helpful notes:

• ʿ stands for the Arabic letter ع
• ʔ stands for a glottal stop, a little catch in the throat, like the break in uh-oh
• In Egyptian Arabic, الـ is usually pronounced el-, not al-

عايز is the normal everyday Egyptian Arabic way to say want.

So:

• أنا عايز... = I want...

Historically, عايز comes from a participle-like form, but as a learner, you can safely treat it as the usual colloquial way to say want.

If you know some Modern Standard Arabic, you may have seen أريد for I want. That is correct in formal Arabic, but in everyday Egyptian speech, عايز is much more natural.

Because Arabic normally does not use a present-tense form of to be the way English does.

So English says:

• I am tired
• I am ready
• I want the blue shirt

Egyptian Arabic often says these without a separate am:

• أنا تعبان
• أنا جاهز
• أنا عايز القميص الأزرق

So أنا عايز is literally something like I wanting, but naturally it means I want.

Yes. In this sentence, عايز matches a male speaker.

• أنا عايز = I want said by a man
• أنا عايزة = I want said by a woman

So if a female speaker says the same sentence, it becomes:

أنا عايزة القميص الأزرق

This is very important in Egyptian Arabic: many adjectives and participle-like forms show gender.

Yes, sometimes you can, especially in conversation when the subject is obvious from context.

So you may hear:

عايز القميص الأزرق

But there is a catch: عايز by itself shows gender, not clearly person. So without أنا, the phrase could depend more on context.

• أنا عايز... clearly means I want...
• عايز... could be understood from the situation, but it is less explicit

For learners, keeping أنا is often easiest and clearest.

Because in Arabic, adjectives normally come after the noun they describe.

So:

• القميص الأزرق = the blue shirt

Literally, the order is:

• the shirt the-blue

This is normal Arabic word order for noun + adjective.

So if you want to describe a noun, remember:

• noun first
• adjective second

Because Arabic adjectives must match the noun in definiteness.

Here, القميص means the shirt, so it is definite.
That means the adjective must also be definite:

• القميص الأزرق = the blue shirt

Compare that with the indefinite version:

• قميص أزرق = a blue shirt

So the pattern is:

• definite noun + definite adjective
• indefinite noun + indefinite adjective

Also, الأزرق is in the masculine singular form, because القميص is masculine singular.

The two sounds that often give English speakers trouble here are ع and ق.

1. ع in عايز

This is a deep throat sound. There is no exact English equivalent.
At first, it is okay if your pronunciation is only approximate, but try to notice that it is not just a plain English vowel.

2. ق in القميص

In much of Egyptian Arabic, especially Cairene speech, ق is often pronounced as a glottal stop ʔ.

So:

• قميص is often pronounced ʔamīṣ, not qamīṣ

That is why learners often hear:

• el-ʔamīṣ

instead of a strong q sound.

Because casual Arabic writing often leaves out things that are included in more careful spelling.

A more standard spelling would be:

أنا عايز القميص الأزرق

What is different?

• أنا is often casually written as انا
• الأزرق is often casually written as الازرق
• short vowel marks are usually omitted in normal Arabic writing

So what you saw is very normal in informal writing, texting, and everyday use.

Yes, it is natural and easy to understand. It sounds like a straightforward everyday sentence:

أنا عايز القميص الأزرق = I want the blue shirt

If you want to sound a little more polite, especially with a shop assistant, you could add something like:

• لو سمحت، أنا عايز القميص الأزرق = Excuse me / please, I want the blue shirt
• ممكن القميص الأزرق؟ = Could I have the blue shirt?

So your sentence is correct and natural, but there are also softer, more polite ways to say it depending on the situation.