الحرب خلصت.

A common Egyptian pronunciation is roughly il-ḥarb khalaṣit.

A few useful notes:

• ال is usually pronounced il- or el- in Egyptian, not al-.
• ح is a stronger, breathier h than in English.
• ص is an emphatic s.
• You may hear slight vowel differences depending on the speaker, but the general shape stays the same.

Because the subject الحرب is feminine singular, and the verb is agreeing with it.

In this sentence, خلصت is the past/perfect 3rd person feminine singular form, so it means something like it ended / it finished, where it refers to the war.

This is very normal in Arabic:

• masculine: a verb form without that feminine ending
• feminine: often a form ending in -ت in writing

Not all feminine nouns in Arabic end in ة. Some nouns are simply feminine by usage, and حرب is one of them.

So even though حرب does not have a visible feminine ending, it still takes feminine agreement:

• الحرب خلصت
• not a masculine verb form

This is something learners often just have to absorb from exposure and dictionaries.

Yes, خلصت is a past/perfect verb form.

But Arabic perfect verbs often cover several English ideas, depending on context:

• ended
• has ended
• is over

So this sentence can naturally correspond to more than one English phrasing. The core idea is that the war has reached its end.

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

In English, you might say:

• The war is over

In Arabic, you often express that idea without a separate is. Here, the verb خلصت already gives the sense that the event has finished, so no extra word for is is needed.

Yes — in unvoweled writing, خلصت can be ambiguous.

It can represent different spoken forms, including:

• khalaṣt = I finished
• khalaṣit = she/it (feminine) finished

In this sentence, the presence of الحرب makes the meaning clear: it has to be the feminine it, referring to the war.

This kind of ambiguity is very common in Arabic writing.

Yes, both are possible.

The difference is mainly one of word order and focus:

• الحرب خلصت: topic-first, something like the war — it’s over
• خلصت الحرب: verb-first, more like the war ended

In Egyptian Arabic, subject-first word order is very common in everyday speech, so الحرب خلصت sounds very natural.

Because خلص is very common and natural in Egyptian Arabic for the idea of something being finished or over.

So:

• الحرب خلصت sounds very everyday and Egyptian
• انتهت الحرب is also correct, but it can sound more formal or closer to Modern Standard Arabic

You should definitely recognize both, but خلص is especially useful in colloquial Egyptian.

A related word you will also hear a lot is خلاص, which can mean things like:

• enough
• okay
• done
• that’s it

It is related in meaning, but it is not the same grammatical form as خلصت.