الاشارة ضعيفة، بس التغطية كويسة.

A common Egyptian-style pronunciation would be:

el-ishāra daʿīfa, bas et-taġṭeya kwayyisa.

A few notes:

• الاشارة → el-ishāra
• ضعيفة → daʿīfa
• بس → bas
• التغطية → et-taġṭeya
• كويسة → kwayyisa or kuwayyisa

You may hear small variations depending on the speaker, but that is a very natural pronunciation.

It is mostly Egyptian Arabic.

The biggest clues are:

• بس for but — very common in spoken Egyptian
• كويسة for good — a very common colloquial adjective in Egyptian

In more formal Modern Standard Arabic, you would expect something more like:

الإشارة ضعيفة، لكن التغطية جيدة.

So the sentence you have is the kind of thing you would hear in everyday conversation.

Because Arabic often uses a nominal sentence in the present tense.

So instead of saying:

• The signal is weak
• The coverage is good

Arabic simply says:

• الاشارة ضعيفة
• التغطية كويسة

The verb is/are is usually not stated in present-tense sentences like this.

In Arabic, adjectives normally come after the noun they describe.

So:

• الاشارة ضعيفة = literally the signal weak
• التغطية كويسة = literally the coverage good

That is the normal Arabic word order for noun + adjective.

Because the nouns they describe are feminine:

• الاشارة is feminine
• التغطية is feminine

In Arabic, adjectives must agree with the noun in gender.

So:

• feminine noun → feminine adjective
• إشارة ضعيفة
• تغطية كويسة

If the noun were masculine, you would use the masculine forms:

• ضعيف
• كويس

For example:

• النت ضعيف
• الإنترنت كويس

Here, بس means but.

So:

• الاشارة ضعيفة، بس التغطية كويسة = The signal is weak, but the coverage is good.

A useful thing to know is that بس can also mean only / just in other contexts. So its exact meaning depends on the sentence.

In this sentence, it clearly means but.

They are related, but not the same.

• الاشارة = the signal
  • usually the current signal strength on your phone
• التغطية = the coverage
  • the general network availability in the area

So the sentence suggests something like:

• right now the signal is weak,
• but in general the network coverage is good.

This is a very natural distinction in phone/network talk.

كويسة is the common Egyptian colloquial word for good.

• masculine: كويس
• feminine: كويسة

In Modern Standard Arabic, you would more often use:

• جيد (masculine)
• جيدة (feminine)

So:

• التغطية كويسة sounds natural in everyday Egyptian speech.
• التغطية جيدة sounds more formal or written.

Because both nouns are definite:

• الاشارة = the signal
• التغطية = the coverage

Arabic uses الـ to mean the.

Since the English meaning is talking about a specific signal and specific coverage, definite forms are natural here.

You could remove الـ in some contexts, but that would change the nuance:

• إشارة ضعيفة = a weak signal
• تغطية كويسة = good coverage

That sounds more general, less tied to a specific situation.

Because ت is a sun letter.

When الـ comes before a sun letter, the l sound of the article assimilates to the next consonant.

So:

• التغطية
• not pronounced el-taghṭeya
• but rather et-taġṭeya

By contrast, in الاشارة, the l sound remains:

• الاشارة → el-ishāra

So the article behaves differently depending on the first letter of the noun.

In fully careful spelling, especially in formal Arabic, it is usually written:

الإشارة

But in informal writing, many people simplify spelling and write:

الاشارة

So the version in your sentence is common in casual text, chats, and social media. It is not unusual at all.

Yes, but it changes the style.

• بس = more natural in everyday Egyptian speech
• لكن = more formal, more like Standard Arabic

So both are understandable, but:

• الاشارة ضعيفة، بس التغطية كويسة sounds conversational
• الإشارة ضعيفة، لكن التغطية جيدة sounds formal or written

Yes, but the original order is already very natural.

The sentence:

الاشارة ضعيفة، بس التغطية كويسة

is a straightforward and common way to say it.

You could also hear slight variations for emphasis, for example:

• التغطية كويسة، بس الاشارة ضعيفة
  • The coverage is good, but the signal is weak

That version shifts the focus. The basic grammar is still natural.

Most likely, yes.

Words like:

• الاشارة = signal
• التغطية = coverage

are very commonly used when talking about:

• mobile phone service
• network reception
• internet/data connection

So if someone says this in everyday life, they are probably talking about phone/network quality.