البيت في الشرق.

A natural Egyptian pronunciation is el-bēt fi sh-sharʔ.

A few notes:

• البيت sounds like el-bēt
• في sounds like fi
• الشرق sounds like ish-sharʔ or esh-sharʔ, depending the speaker

So the whole sentence is roughly el-bēt fi sh-sharʔ.

In Arabic, the verb to be is usually not said in the present tense.

So where English says:

• The house is in the east

Arabic simply says:

• The house in the east

This is completely normal. In past or future sentences, Arabic does use a verb for was / will be, but in the present tense it is usually omitted.

في means in.

It is a very common preposition and is used for location:

• في البيت = in the house
• في مصر = in Egypt
• في الشرق = in the east

So in this sentence, في الشرق is a prepositional phrase telling you where the house is.

Because الـ is the Arabic definite article, equivalent to the in English.

So:

• بيت = house / home
• البيت = the house / the home

In Egyptian Arabic, الـ is usually pronounced el-, so البيت is pronounced el-bēt.

It can mean both, depending on context.

In many situations:

• بيت = house
• بيت = home

So البيت could be understood as the house or the home. The exact English translation depends on the situation, even though the Arabic word stays the same.

Because ش is a sun letter.

When الـ comes before a sun letter, the l sound of الـ disappears in pronunciation, and the next consonant is doubled.

So:

• Written: الشرق
• Pronounced: ash-sharq in Standard Arabic, or ish-sharʔ / esh-sharʔ in Egyptian Arabic

This is why you hear sh-sh instead of el-sh.

That is a normal sound change between Standard Arabic and Egyptian Arabic.

In Standard Arabic:

• بيت = bayt

In Egyptian Arabic:

• بيت = bēt

This happens in many words where Standard Arabic has ay and Egyptian often has a long ē sound instead.

It works in both, but the pronunciation changes.

• In Standard Arabic, it would be pronounced roughly al-baytu fi ash-sharqi
• In Egyptian Arabic, it is more like el-bēt fi sh-sharʔ

So the written sentence is perfectly understandable, but a learner should know that Egyptian pronunciation is different from Standard Arabic pronunciation.

الشرق means the east, which is the normal way to talk about a direction or region in this kind of sentence.

So:

• في الشرق = in the east

Without الـ, شرق often sounds less complete or more dependent on another word. In simple location sentences like this, في الشرق is the expected form.

The most normal order here is:

• البيت = the topic / subject
• في الشرق = where it is

So البيت في الشرق is the straightforward, natural order.

Changing the order is usually not necessary for a beginner. Arabic can move things around for emphasis in some contexts, but if you want to say this simple idea naturally, البيت في الشرق is the safest pattern to use.

Because in Egyptian Arabic, case endings are not used.

In formal Standard Arabic, the fully marked form would be something like:

• البيتُ في الشرقِ

But in normal Egyptian Arabic, learners do not add those endings in speech. Even in writing, short vowels and case endings are usually left out unless the text is fully vowelled for teaching or recitation.