بطني بتوجعني.

A common Egyptian pronunciation is:

baTni bitwigaʿni
or
baTni btiwgaʿni

Notes:

• ط is a heavy/emphatic t.
• ع is a deep throat sound that English does not have.
• The stress is usually close to BAT-ni bit-WA-gaʿ-ni or BAT-ni bit-WIGAʿ-ni, depending on the speaker.

A very rough English-style approximation is BAT-nee bit-wa-GAʿ-nee, but the ع sound cannot be represented well in English.

بطني literally means my stomach or my belly.

It is made of:

• بطن = stomach / belly
• -ي = my

So:

• بطن = stomach
• بطني = my stomach

In Egyptian Arabic, بـ often marks the present/habitual form of a verb.

So بتوجعني is a present-tense form meaning something like:

• it hurts me
• it is hurting me

This بـ is extremely common in Egyptian Arabic present-tense verbs:

• بكتب = I write / I am writing
• بياكل = he eats / he is eating
• بتوجعني = it hurts me

بتوجعني can be broken down like this:

• بتوجع = hurts / is hurting
• -ني = me

So بتوجعني literally means it hurts me.

In this sentence, the thing doing the hurting is بطني = my stomach.

So the structure is basically:

بطني + بتوجعني
my stomach + is hurting me

Very natural English translation: My stomach hurts.

Because Egyptian Arabic often expresses this idea as X hurts me, not just X hurts.

So:

• بطني = my stomach
• بتوجعني = hurts me

Literally: My stomach is hurting me.

This sounds redundant in English, but in Arabic it is normal.

Compare:

• ضهري بيوجعني = My back hurts
• راسي بتوجعني = My head hurts

The body part is the subject, and the person affected is shown again with -ني = me.

In Egyptian Arabic, body parts are often treated with verb forms that may feel a little different from what an English speaker expects, especially in everyday speech.

With بطن and many similar nouns, بتوجعني is a very common colloquial way to say it hurts me / it’s hurting me.

In real spoken Egyptian, learners should focus first on recognizing and using the whole pattern:

• بطني بتوجعني
• راسي بتوجعني
• سناني بتوجعني

That pattern is more important at this stage than forcing a word-for-word match with English grammar.

In Egyptian Arabic, this form can cover both ideas depending on context.

So بطني بتوجعني can mean:

• My stomach hurts
• My stomach is hurting
• I have a stomachache (depending on context)

Egyptian Arabic does not always separate simple present and present progressive the way English does.

Yes. أنا بطني بتوجعني is possible, and it adds emphasis to I.

But usually بطني بتوجعني is enough, because the -ني already tells us the person affected is me.

So:

• بطني بتوجعني = normal, natural
• أنا بطني بتوجعني = more emphatic, like my stomach hurts me / as for me, my stomach hurts

Yes, it is a very normal and natural way.

Egyptian Arabic often uses body part + hurts me for pain:

• راسي بتوجعني = My head hurts
• ضهري بيوجعني = My back hurts
• سناني بتوجعني = My teeth hurt
• بطني بتوجعني = My stomach hurts

So instead of building the sentence like English I have a stomachache, Egyptian commonly says my stomach hurts me.

The root idea is pain/hurting.

You will often meet:

• وجع as a noun meaning pain
• verb forms like يوجع / يوجعني / بتوجعني meaning hurt / hurts me

In everyday Egyptian speech, learners often first memorize useful chunks such as:

• ده يوجع = this hurts
• بيوجعني = it hurts me
• بتوجعني = it hurts me

The exact verb pattern matters, but for conversation it is very useful to learn the full expression as one piece.

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

In English:

• My stomach is hurting

In Egyptian Arabic:

• بطني بتوجعني

There is no separate word for is here. The verb itself already carries the meaning.

Yes. بطن can refer to:

• stomach
• belly
• abdomen

So depending on context, بطني بتوجعني could be understood as:

• My stomach hurts
• My belly hurts
• My abdomen hurts

In ordinary conversation, my stomach hurts is usually the best translation.

A common Egyptian negation is:

بطني ما بتوجعنيش

This means:

• My stomach doesn’t hurt
• My stomach isn’t hurting me

Egyptian Arabic often uses the pattern:

• ما ... ش

So:

• بتوجعني = it hurts me
• ما بتوجعنيش = it doesn’t hurt me

Yes, very often. This is one of the most useful patterns for talking about pain.

Examples:

• راسي بتوجعني = My head hurts
• عيني بتوجعني = My eye hurts
• ودني بتوجعني = My ear hurts
• سناني بتوجعني = My teeth hurt
• ضهري بيوجعني = My back hurts
• رجلي بتوجعني = My leg hurts

So a very productive pattern is:

[body part + ي] + [verb meaning hurts me]

A very useful way to remember it is as three chunks:

• بطني = my stomach
• بتوجع = hurts
• -ني = me

Or even better, memorize the whole sentence as one natural expression:

بطني بتوجعني = My stomach hurts

Then expand the pattern to other body parts later. This is often easier than trying to analyze every detail too early.