العريس والعروسة اتخطبوا قبل الفرح.

A common pronunciation is:

il-ʿarīs wil-ʿarūsa itxaṭabu abl il-faraḥ

You may also see it written in transliteration as:

el-3arees wel-3aroosa etkhatabo abl el-fara7

A few pronunciation notes:

• العريس = il-ʿarīs
• العروسة = il-ʿarūsa
• اتخطبوا = itxaṭabu or etkhaṭabo depending on transliteration style
• قبل = abl or sometimes qabl in more careful pronunciation, but in Egyptian it is usually closer to abl
• الفرح = il-faraḥ

The letter ع is the deep throat sound often written as ʿ or 3.

In Egyptian Arabic, the definite article الـ is usually pronounced il- or el-, not al- as in careful Modern Standard Arabic.

So:

• العريس → il-ʿarīs
• العروسة → il-ʿarūsa
• الفرح → il-faraḥ

This is completely normal in Egyptian speech.

• العريس = the groom
• العروسة = the bride

A useful thing to notice:

• عريس is the masculine form
• عروسة is the feminine form, with the common feminine ending -ة

In Egyptian Arabic, عروسة can also literally mean doll in other contexts, but here it clearly means bride.

اتخطبوا means they got engaged.

It comes from the verb related to engagement or betrothal. In this sentence, it refers to the bride and groom becoming engaged to each other.

So the structure is:

• اتخطبوا = they got engaged

This is a very common colloquial Egyptian way to talk about engagement.

Because together they make a plural subject: the groom and the bride = they.

So even though each noun is singular on its own, the whole subject is plural:

• العريس = one person
• العروسة = one person
• العريس والعروسة = two people → plural

That is why the verb is plural:

• اتخطبوا = they got engaged

The key plural marker here is the ending -وا.

So:

• base verb idea: اتخطب
• plural ending: وا
• together: اتخطبوا

That final -وا is what tells you the subject is plural.

Here it means they got engaged, referring to the couple together.

It does not mean someone proposed to them.

In context, العريس والعروسة اتخطبوا naturally means the couple became engaged. It is a normal way to describe the engagement of two people.

قبل = before
الفرح = the wedding

So:

• قبل الفرح = before the wedding

In Egyptian Arabic, فرح often means wedding celebration or wedding event, even though the word literally relates to joy or happiness.

Literally, فرح is connected to joy or happiness, but in Egyptian Arabic it very commonly means wedding.

So in this sentence, الفرح is best understood as:

• the wedding
• or more specifically, the wedding celebration

That is the natural meaning here.

Because Arabic often expresses ideas like got engaged, got married, got dressed, and so on with a single verb rather than using got + adjective/past participle the way English does.

So English says:

• they got engaged

Egyptian Arabic says:

• اتخطبوا

One verb carries the whole idea.

In Egyptian Arabic, putting the subject first is very common, especially in everyday speech.

So:

• العريس والعروسة اتخطبوا = The groom and the bride got engaged

This is a natural colloquial structure.

You can think of it as:

• topic first: the groom and the bride
• then what happened to them: they got engaged

This sounds very normal in Egyptian Arabic.

The و means and.

In speech it is usually pronounced w and attached to the next word:

• العريس والعروسة
• pronounced roughly: il-ʿarīs wil-ʿarūsa

Notice how و + الـ often sounds like wil- or wel- in Egyptian pronunciation.

You could, but it would change the meaning.

With الـ:

• العريس والعروسة = the groom and the bride

Without الـ:

• عريس وعروسة = a groom and a bride or groom and bride in a more general sense

In your sentence, the definite forms are natural because we are talking about a specific couple.

Yes, عروسة is the normal everyday Egyptian word for bride.

Likewise:

• عريس = groom
• عروسة = bride

These are very common words and worth memorizing early.

Yes. In real usage, قبل الفرح can broadly mean before the wedding, including before the wedding day or before the wedding celebration.

It does not have to refer only to one narrow part of the event. In everyday speech, people often use الفرح to refer to the whole wedding occasion.

Yes, a few things make it sound clearly Egyptian:

• الـ pronounced as il-/el-
• الفرح used for wedding
• the everyday colloquial verb اتخطبوا
• the overall simple spoken-word order

A more formal or Modern Standard Arabic sentence would likely look different, but this one sounds natural in Egyptian everyday speech.

A good mini vocabulary list from this sentence is:

• عريس = groom
• عروسة = bride
• اتخطب = to get engaged
• قبل = before
• فرح = wedding / wedding celebration

These are all high-value everyday words in Egyptian Arabic.