مناخيري بتوجعني.

مناخيري means my nose in this kind of everyday Egyptian usage, though literally it comes from مناخير, which is nostrils or nose/nostrils in colloquial speech.

The ending -ي means my, so:

• مناخير = nose / nostrils
• مناخيري = my nose / my nostrils

Because Egyptian Arabic often talks about the nose using مناخير, a plural form connected to the nostrils. So the phrase can be understood literally as my nostrils, but in natural English the best translation is often just my nose.

This is pretty common with body parts in colloquial Arabic: the form used does not always match English one-for-one.

بتوجعني means it hurts me or it is hurting me.

It breaks down like this:

• بـ = present-tense marker in Egyptian Arabic
• توجع = from the verb وجع / يوجع, meaning to hurt or to cause pain
• -ني = me

So the whole word means it hurts me.

Because مناخيري is a non-human plural in form, and Arabic commonly treats non-human plurals as feminine singular for agreement.

That is why the verb appears in the feminine singular form, which starts with تـ here.

So even though the noun looks plural, the verb behaves as if the subject were she/it singular.

Because they do two different jobs:

• مناخيري = my nose
  
  • the -ي shows possession
• بتوجعني = hurts me
  
  • the -ني shows who is feeling the pain

So the structure is basically:

My nose hurts me

Arabic often expresses pain this way, with the body part as the subject and the person as the object.

It is Egyptian colloquial Arabic.

A more formal or Modern Standard Arabic version would be something like أنفي يؤلمني.

So:

• مناخيري بتوجعني = natural Egyptian speech
• أنفي يؤلمني = formal / MSA

Yes, that is close to the literal structure.

Word-for-word, it is roughly:

• مناخيري = my nostrils / my nose
• بتوجعني = are hurting me / hurt me

But natural English usually says:

• My nose hurts
• My nose is hurting

So the literal translation is useful for understanding the grammar, but not always the most natural English version.

In Egyptian Arabic, ج is usually pronounced like g in go, not like the English j in jam.

So بتوجعني has a g sound.

A rough pronunciation of the whole sentence is:

ma-na-khee-ri bit-wa-gaʿ-ni

The last sound ʿ represents the Arabic letter ع, which does not have an exact English equivalent.

The pattern is:

body part + hurts me

So this sentence is built like:

• مناخيري = my nose
• بتوجعني = hurts me

This is a very common way to talk about pain in Egyptian Arabic. Similar patterns are used with other body parts too, such as my head hurts me or my stomach hurts me.